Same questions as before.

Do you have any plugins installed? or is it a vanilla install?

You can still get to the log by opening it up in another text editor. Just open ~/.jedit/activity.log.

Hopefully you'll see some exception there.

Also have you tried - as Robert suggested - (re)moving your settings directory?

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Renamed the file so the buffer load would fail was able to CTRL+W it. File was re-created much larger than was opened in Jedit previously.

Yes I have some plugins installed. Listed below.
Tried to delete the settings directory but there was no folder "Settings", there was a settings-backup folder with a number of files starting with ~. I added an empty settings folder, but it did not help. Can I start jedit without loading the buffers? Appears to be an issue with encoding also one of the buffers may be large.

11/01/2006 04:19 PM 34,897 ColumnRuler.jar
03/21/2007 08:46 AM 221,340 CommonControls.jar
10/08/2006 09:54 AM 412,842 Console.jar
09/26/2006 10:34 PM 43,073 ErrorList.jar
06/23/2003 03:17 PM 23,255 HexEdit.jar
08/26/2008 06:37 PM 883,859 JDiffPlugin.jar
03/21/2007 08:46 AM 11,665 kappalayout.jar
11/16/2008 03:44 PM 2,689 LatestVersion.jar
11/16/2008 03:44 PM 12,695 QuickNotepad.jar

Finally found the Activity.log, in Windows XP (for my install) it is located under C:\Documents and Settings\user\.jedit The error messages are:
11:58:46 AM [AWT-EventQueue-0] [error] ErrorListDialog$ErrorEntry: The file could not be loaded correctly (some data might be lost) with
11:58:46 AM [AWT-EventQueue-0] [error] ErrorListDialog$ErrorEntry: the encoding "Cp1252".
11:58:46 AM [AWT-EventQueue-0] [error] ErrorListDialog$ErrorEntry: (java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input length = 1)
11:58:46 AM [AWT-EventQueue-0] [error] ErrorListDialog$ErrorEntry: Try selecting a different encoding.
11:58:46 AM [AWT-EventQueue-0] [error] ErrorListDialog$ErrorEntry: It can be selected with the menu File->Reload with Encoding.
11:58:46 AM [AWT-EventQueue-0] [error] ErrorListDialog$ErrorEntry: If you want it to be done automatically, add the candidates into
11:58:46 AM [AWT-EventQueue-0] [error] ErrorListDialog$ErrorEntry: "List of fallback encodings" in Encodings pane of Global Options.
11:59:00 AM [AWT-EventQueue-0] [error] AWT-EventQueue-0: Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0"
11:59:00 AM [AWT-EventQueue-0] [error] AWT-EventQueue-0: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

Beats me. Maybe not, ps reports something called cacao. I've installed Java-1_6_0-sun and Java-1_5_0-sun runtimes.
java -version reports:
java version "1.6.0_01"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_01-b06)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0_01-b06, mixed mode)

I'm guessing the JDK isn't the same as the runtime environment?
Also, my Package Selector tells me I have java-1_4_2-cacao-devel installed.

I think this line of inquiry might pay off.

Thanks,
eric

I believe your Java version is the Sun one, so I don't think that is the issue.

When you say you've installed Java-1_6_0-sun, do you mean, you installed it manually? Using the .bin files? And are therefore setting the which Java you are using through environment variables and *nix aliases?

Or, did you install them through the package selector?

Above that though, do you have any plugins installed? or is it a vanilla installation of jEdit?

Have you tried the latest development version of jEdit (4.3pre16). There were a lot of improvements made since 4.2final, and it is really quite stable.

If you don't want to try that, please try launching jEdit manually from the command line.

Navigate into the jEdit installation directory, and type "java -jar jedit.jar".

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Everything was done either from the initial SUSE install or through the Package Selector (add software tool). I did try installing jedit from the kit downloaded from jedit.org but the present version was done through Package Selector too.

Re: plugins, vanilla.

Maybe I'll give 4.3 a try, couldn't be any worse.

Where is jedit typically installed?

Thanks,
eric

Not sure on SUSE.

Do a "which jedit" to see where the executable is. The shell script should point you to where jEdit was actually installed.

Re: Re: plugins, vanilla - So do you have any plugins installed? Or is it a fresh install without any plugins?

Yeah, definitely give 4.3 a try, I'm thinking you'll have better performance with it.

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No plugins except what comes with the jedit installer (if any).

Actually, I think it's mostly fixed. I did some poking around and, I'm not sure, but it looked like I had too many javas installed. It sort of looked like I had cacao and gcc jdks running plus 1.4 and 1.5 JREs. What I did was remove the gcc and cacao, and installed a Sun(TM) 1.6 jdk (though I can't seem to find javac, oh well).

Jedit (4.2 and 4.3) now seems mostly happy.

Too damn many javas out there. Maybe I'll get it figured out some day.

Thanks for the help.
eric

I hope not. As far as I know everything is local. By jedit settings directory, do you mean ~/.jedit or something else?

Thanks,
eric

Yes, ~/.jedit.

Regarding the Java version:
To be sure, witch Java is used by jEdit, please take a look at the Activity Log (via "Utilities -> Troubleshooting -> Activity Log" or open the file ~/.jedit/activity.log). Look for lines like these:

20:52:09 [main] [message] Log: java.version=1.6.0_11
20:52:09 [main] [message] Log: java.vm.version=11.0-b16
20:52:09 [main] [message] Log: java.runtime.version=1.6.0_11-b03
20:52:09 [main] [message] Log: java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.

Robert