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won't start, hangs at "run startup scripts"
Submitted by hughstimson on Friday, 7 August, 2009 - 17:31
I had a functioning installation of jedit, but something changed and now it won't load.

The splash screen appears and most of the start-up steps seem to complete successfully, but when it gets to the "run statup scripts" stage it stops loading indefinitely, without any cpu activity.

I'm using 4.3pre17 on WindowsXP.

Some things I've tried:

- Starting from the command line with the -nostartupscripts argument

- Deleting startup.bsh, which (apart from readme.txt) is the only file in the startup folder.

- Uninstalling and re-installing jedit 4.3pre17

- Uninstalling, deleting the jedit program folder, and re-installing.

- Uninstalling and installing 4.2

In all cases it still won't get past "run startup scripts"

Is there a settings directory or registry entry that I should also be deleting to perform a complete uninstall? Or does someone have any ideas about how I might otherwise fix the issue?

I miss jedit.
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settings directory
by Robert Schwenn on Fri, 07/08/2009 - 20:26
You should exit jEdit and delete the perspective.xml inside the settings directory (normally C:\Documents and Setings\(USERNAME)\.jedit\). If this wasn't successful, You should delete (or rename) the whole settings directory.

Robert
 
that did the trick
by hughstimson on Fri, 07/08/2009 - 21:41
And just like that, the problem is solved.

Thanks Robert!
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