Bug in saving user properties containing line continuation characters

[martyngigg]

If there is any text directly before a line that has a \ at then end within the Mantid.user.properties file then that line gets prepended to the saved version.

Example:
Original user properties file contains:

# All paths should contain forward slashes
datasearch.directories = '/home/dmn58364/mantidproject/data';\
'/home/dmn58364/mantidproject/otherdata'

• Start MantidPlot
• Open the user preferences dialog and click apply then cancel.
• Re-open the Mantid.user.properties file and the above line will look like

# All paths should contain forward slashes
# All paths should contain forward slashesdatasearch.directories = '/home/dmn58364/mantidproject/data';\
'/home/dmn58364/mantidproject/otherdata'

[martyngigg]

This issue was originally trac ticket 1935