From: Alex Riesen Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:11:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Make generated MSVC solution file open from Windows Explorer Message-ID: <81b0412b0909251511m24e5c6bcg3f8c4e3576ad3bd3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090925220510.GY14660@spearce.org> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 00:05, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Sebastian Schuberth wrote: >> In order to be able to open the generated solution file by double-clicking it >> in Windows Explorer, all project files need to use DOS line-endings and a >> comment about the Visual Studio version needs to be added to the header of the >> solution file. This also fixes the icon that is displayed for the solution file >> in Windows Explorer. >> Note that opening the solution file from a running instance of Visual Studio >> already worked before. > > Something is wrong with both patches; neither applies.  It looks > to be an issue with whitespace, like context lines are gaining an > extra space at the start of the line. Besides, there is PERLIO environment variable. Try setting it to PERLIO=':perlio'