1 Reply by tpaine

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Re: Visual Assist X, txt files and ViEmu

I recently installed Visual Assist X and getting it to work nicely with ViEmu 2.2.8 has been pretty smooth with the exception of a couple issues. The first was getting to work with .config files (http://www.viemu.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1193). The 2nd issue, which I was not able to find a fix for concerned a similar issue with txt files.

Bug: ViEmu was stuck in edit mode for any file with a txt extension.

Fix: I altered the Visual Assist definition for txt files to include something so that visual assist would process the files. I'm assuming this allowed ViEmu to hook in before Visual Assist and function properly.

The File:

Vista :
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\VisualAssist\Autotext\txt.tpl
Windows 2000 or XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Visual Assist\Autotext\txt.tpl

The change you make doesn't really matter, so i added something trivial:

a::<!:
<!-- $end$ -->

Anyway I just wanted to post my fix unless someone else came here looking for a solution to this problem.

If someone wants to take a crack at fixing the problem in ViEmu itself here is my Help -> About info:

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2 Reply by Jon_Symnum

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Re: Visual Assist X, txt files and ViEmu

Thomas, thanks so much for posting the workaround. It will certainly be useful to other VAX users. I strive hard to make ViEmu fully compatible with other major 3rd party add-ins, but it's often a huge challenge. Hopefully we will have better interaction with the new models in VS2010 and future versions, which will make this problems history. Meanwhile, even if ViEmu will keep having to adapt to other add-ins, in edge cases having a usable workaround is enough most of the time.

Thanks,

  -- Jon