Help please! I've enjoyed using jEdit under OS-X but I suddently cannot open files from the command line and I don't know how to troubleshoot this.

For months I've been using this csh alias to open files in jEdit from the command line:

je: aliased to open -a ~/Applications/jEdit\ 4.2/jEdit.app !*

For example:
csh: je junk.txt

This suddenly stopped working. jEdit will start but will not load the specified file. Of course our system adminstrator installs software updates from Apple all the time, but I can't tell whether this is a failure of Apple's "open" command or a failure of jEdit. Has anyone else seen this problem?


If I explicitly run the jEdit executable like this:

~/Applications/jEdit\ 4.2/jEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub junk.txt

then it mistakenly starts a NEW file named junk.txt in the jEdit install directory.

Only if I give the full path to the existing file will it open it:

~/Applications/jEdit\ 4.2/jEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub ~/junk.txt

Any help is much appreciated.
Patrick Broos
Astronomy Department
Penn State University