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Escape characters for paths in NSISnnewton - June 10, 2009 - 1:57am
Is this still an unresolvable issue with the NS installer? http://portableapps.com/node/4530 I just installed the portable GPG and Enigmail and the path to my gpg.exe is being changed when I exit TB. The path for my TB includes a directory starting with a lowercase n, NSIS seems to turn this into some control character when it saves back to the "extensions.enigmail.agentPath" line in pref.js. Works fine with an uppercase N though. This only happens with the path to gpg.exe, all the other paths in pref.js are fine. ( categories: )
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This finally annoyed me
This finally annoyed me enough that I decided to learn how to use NSIS and fix it myself.
Edit the ThunderbirdPortable.nsi file:
Add StrRep.nsh to the
;(NSIS Plugins)includes section near the top of the file:In the
GPGEnvironmentsection, insert the following immediately before theFileWrite $0 `user_pref("extensions.enigmail.agentPath", "$GPGPATHDIRECTORY\gpg.exe");`line:;Correct a problem with escape sequences, eg \n or \r in the path ${StrReplace} "$GPGPATHDIRECTORY" "\" "~TmpRepStr~" "$GPGPATHDIRECTORY" ${StrReplace} "$GPGPATHDIRECTORY" "~TmpRepStr~" "\\" "$GPGPATHDIRECTORY"See here if you want to know why it needs two lines:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Talk:StrRep
Recompile with NSIS and run.