Allow Env Vars for "Save Backups to Backup Folder"

[Stefan]

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The edit box “Backup Folder:”
of “Config > Backup”
will show me all items of \%tmp\%
as an drop-down display
but then again he tell me:

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EmEditor
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The folder ‘\%temp\%_EmEd_Backups’ does not exist.
Create a new folder?
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Ja Nein
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and then

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EmEditor
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Cannot create a folder.
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OK
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Even the folder already exists.

Browsing for the full path works of course.

So i guess EmEditor doesn’t really allow
env vars as path in that control?

It seems to me just your code to check the path
is not prepared to expand the \%VAR\% ?

If that is true… could that be improved please?

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[Yutaka Emura]

Hello Stefan,

Environment variables are not supported for the Backup folder. If this is something you desire, I will add this feature in future versions. By the way, this is not a plug-in feature, but rather an EmEditor core feature.

Thanks!

[Stefan]

Yutaka wrote:
Environment variables are not supported for the Backup folder. If this is something you desire, I will add this feature in future versions.

Well, since i use EmEditor portable
i just want to make this path portable too,
and pointing it e.g. to user profile folder
(You know: no matter if user is stefan or admin)
Or to a other partition which is defined by
an own created env var \%Backups\%.

But at least we can use relative paths here:
[ .Backups ]

So i can life with that but to make EmEditor even more portable
i want to suggest to respect this fact on all places.
So,… if you find some time to implement this it would be appreciated .

Yutaka wrote:
By the way, this is not a plug-in feature, but rather an EmEditor core feature.

Yes, sorry, i have just clicked the wrong forum by accident.
Please move it if you want.

Thank you.

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