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Bug 57954

Summary:	Editor options not remembered
Product:	editor	Reporter:	growe <growe>
Component:	-- Other --	Assignee:	issues@editor <issues>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	58412

Description growe 2005-04-16 10:11:29 UTC

I have found this problem in both versions 4.0 and the 4.1 beta.
Select Tools->Options->Editing->Editor Settings and change any of the properties
in any of the editors (e.g. turn line numbering on or change the font size in
the Java editor). Then exit NetBeans and restart it - any changes are forgotten
and everything reverts to the default. (This problem seems to be localized to
editor settings - changing something in Build->Ant Setting for example *does*
get remembered.)

Occasionally I get a warning box when shutting down NetBeans that warns it was
unable to delete the favorites.settings file (and sometimes other files).

Not sure if this is related but I have changed the My Documents folder from its
default location on the C partition to E:\My Documents, but NetBeans still
stores its settings files on the original C:\ drive in what used to be the My
Documents area. I tried changing My Documents back to the default location but
this didn't solve the problem.

Comment 1 Martin Roskanin 2005-04-21 09:27:26 UTC

Could you please attach as attachement
<your_netbeans_user_dir>/var/log/messages.log file and zipped
<your_netbeans_user_dir>/config/Editors/ folder? Thanks.

Comment 2 Martin Roskanin 2005-06-02 16:06:25 UTC

I cannot reproduce the problem. And without requested additional info I cannot
find where the problem is. Closing as worksforme. Please, reopen the issue if
the problem persists and attach requested info, thanks.

Comment 3 neilwightman 2006-04-12 11:27:22 UTC

I had this same issue, I dont know what was causing it, but I simply moved the 
<your_netbeans_user_dir>/config/Editors/
out the way while netbeans was not running.
I then restarted netbeans and changed my editor setting, now it remembers