[Zope] Re: ExternalEditor: can't get temp_dir to work

[Casey Duncan]

On Sun, 02 May 2004 12:00:17 -0500
Kent Tenney <kent at springfed.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> Win2000
> 
> in my ZopeEdit.ini is the following;
> 
> [general]
> editor = c:/vim/vim62/gvim.exe
> temp_dir = c:/temp
> 
> the 'editor' line works fine, but the
> dir for local storage is always the
> default temp dir. I've tried things like
> temp_dir = c:\temp
> temp_dir = c:\\temp
> temp_dir = c:/temp/
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Windows does not honor the temporary directory setting. This is an issue
with the temporary file name generator API in the python standard
library. I'm not sure if it is a bug or not, but it probably needs
better documentation.

-Casey