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Command Line Plugin
Submitted by dhotson on Monday, 22 January, 2007 - 05:34
Hi,

I'm pretty new to writing plugins for jEdit. So please don't flame me. Smiling

I want to write a plugin so that I can right click on a file or directory in the file browser and have a command line program run with the path of the selected file/dir passed as an argument. I'd like the output displayed in a popup box (or similar).

The command line programs I want to run in particular are:
svn status
svn log

ie programs where no input is required (except for command line arguments)

Could anyone give me a hint as to how hard this might be? I can code in java, so I don't mind implementing it myself.

Just a few hints to get me going would be enough. Thanks! Smiling
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You could start from the plug
by cvicari on Mon, 22/01/2007 - 16:24
You could start from the plugin writing guide distributed with the jedit's guide. As far as I know, the only method for a plugin to interface with the filesystem browser is to use the "plugins" menu in it... the archive plugin uses this mechanism, I think that you can start having a look at its source code to understand the full mechanism

I also think that the console plugin does something very similar to what you are looking for... it is extensible with the use of "commando files", please have a look at it!
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