Easier management of user configurationsSometimes I want to try to change the appearance of Slickedit 17 UI dialogs etc. by editing them, but I find backing out of unwanted/failed changes extraordinarily difficult--there is no version control of what gets dumped into the binary state file that controls the program's appearance, it's often a completely brittle situation. So most of the time I use the
-sc option to start a fresh configuration folder, and then I apply hotfixes etc. to bring the new instance up to the current level, and from there I can mess things up without any regrets.
This process is all a bit much for small changes, so I'm wondering if
Slickedit could emulate the Mozilla programs in this regard: starting Slickedit with the option
-profilemanager would bring up a small dialog with a list of selectable current named configurations created by the profilemanager as well as the option to rapidly create a new profile. Nothing would change with the existing
-sc option (equivalent to the Mozilla
-profile option), which would not add anything to the profile manager's list, and there would only be one new startup option
-P, which would start Slickedit with a named profile.
Maybe the Mozilla
-no-remote option might also be useful for those wanting to run multiple instances of Slickedit with potentially different user configurations for each instance:
When Firefox is running and you try to open another Firefox process, a new window is opened instead, in the already running process. In Firefox 2 and above, you can use the -no-remote command line option to start a new Firefox process that is invisible to the first process. By using -no-remote along with the -P option to select a different profile, you can open multiple instances of Firefox at the same time, using separate profiles.
I use these Mozilla options all the time: I have profiles for locked-down (e.g. banking) browsing, regular browsing, etc. And the
-no-remote option on the special browsing profiles ensures that new instances of the browser invoked by me or other programs will open in my regular browsing profile, not in any currently open special browsing profile(s).