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jEdit No Longer Loads in Vista
Submitted by dustinfineout on Wednesday, 30 July, 2008 - 14:29
I've seen this reported before by users who installed a Windows update and subsequently were unable to open jEdit. I did not install any updates, though, just tried to go to work this morning with no luck.

I installed jEdit with the Windows installer about 3 months ago on this machine, which is running Vista Home Premium, and have had no problems until today. Now, when I try to open jEdit, a javaw.exe process is spawned and hangs. This happens whether I run through the installed shortcut, directly run the exe, or run from command line, and regardless of whether I run as administrator. I've uninstalled jEdit to try different releases, and I cleared all temporary and application data and rebooted after each uninstall. The same thing happens regardless what I try. Also the latest Windows update I've installed was on the 20th and I tried uninstalling that (didn't help).

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I've used jEdit almost exclusively for about 2 years now - it's become a very powerful tool for me so I'd hate to have to move back to other editors.
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i/o operation?
by Robert Schwenn on Wed, 30/07/2008 - 20:21
Well, I'm on XP yet. But since jEdit did run on Your Vista, I assume that not Vista is the problem. Maybe jEdit has started any kind of i/o operation and cannot accomplish it. I've seen such behavior by myself, but don't remember the exact reason (but is was i/o).

Could You imagine what file jEdit could try to handle but can't do it?
What does Your Activity Log say?
Could You start jedit at the command line via java.exe (instead of javaW.exe) and watch for java messages?

Robert
 
Also, have you installed any
by elberry on Wed, 30/07/2008 - 22:29
Also, have you installed any plugins recently? Something like the OpenIt plugin indexes files which may cause it to hang.

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