SciTE4AutoIt config issues

[mbit90]

Hello, first post here, but I've been using Autoit since around 2010.

I just upgraded to Autoit 3.3.14.5 and SciTE4AutoIt3 07_11_2019. Had been using an ancient version from 2015 before. I'm on WIn7 64 bit.

I don't like the current syntax highlighting colors so I fired up SciteConfig, but it does not change the colors and fonts after hitting Apply.
Then I went to Menu Options -> Open User Options File, it opens the SciTEUser.properties file in the program directory - which is not writeable when UAC is enabled. As soon as I give myself write rights (set ACLs), scite will delete that file. So that's not the solution.
I had been opening Scite from the context menu of a script in Explorer all this time.

Then I started scite from the Start Menu shortcut -- and now it uses the config files from the userprofile (C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\AutoIt v3\SciTE) and SciteConfig works like a charm.

So why does Scite work so differently when started from the context menu?
How do I fix this?

[pseakins]

Check the version numbers obtained from Help - About for the two different methods of starting. Are they different? If they are the same you should wait for @Jos to respond. Meanwhile take a look at this recent thread, there are similarities with your issue, you may need to post the same diagnostic info.

 

Edited September 25, 2020 by pseakins
Posted wrong link

[mbit90]

Hey thanks for your reply.
Checked the version numbers - they are the same.
They must be, it's the same program after all. I checked in task manager, it's the same executable running in both cases. I don't have any other copy of Scite installed.

[mbit90]

Update: Jos' answer to the topic you linked actually helped.
It turns out that when started through the explorer context menu, SciTE did not get the SCITE_USERHOME env variable.
That's because explorer's environment was outdated and did not have the variable, and SCiTE inherited that environment.
So I "restarted" all explorer.exe instances and that solved it

Thanks for the help!
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