Portable version of jEdit for Windows

Submitted by wpp-dev on Friday, 15 January, 2010 - 22:34

Hello,

I'm a winPenPack.com developer.
winPenPack ( http://www.winpenpack.com and http://sourceforge.net/projects/winpenpack ) is a collection of open source portable programs for Windows, optimized for use with a USB pen drive or any portable device and also directly from Hard Disk.

I'd like to signal you that we have developed a portable version of jEdit for Windows, called X-jEdit, in winPenPack.com Format: http://www.winpenpack.com/main/download.php?view.840 . You have just to download the .zip archive, uncompress it and double-click on X-jEdit.exe

Obviously, any suggestion or feedback will be welcome! Smiling

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TECHNICAL DETAILS:

1 - at X-jEdit first run, the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is automatically downloaded and extracted in X-jEdit\Lib\Java\ folder (but only if JRE is not present in this directory). In this way anyone can use jEdit even if Java is not installed in the host pc;

2 - the "-Duser.home" parameter has been set: all settings are stored in \User\jEdit directory instead of %USERPROFILE%\.jEdit folder;

3 - all paths of recent files (if the files are saved in \Bin\, \User\, \Lib, \Documents, \Downloads or \Backups directories) are normalized when the drive letter or the software position changes;

4 - all paths included in "history", "properties", "recent.xml" and "perspective.xml" are normalized when the drive letter or the software position changes;

5 - the "backup.directory" has been set.

really nice

by tobi73de on Thu, 11/02/2010 - 11:24

Good Work !

but ...

I use an highly customized version of jedit on 2 PC's (Home/Work).

A big Problem is to handle the absolute Path's for custom Toolbar-Icons or Background-Images. So far I have not found a Solution for this Problem. JEdit writes the apsolute pathes of the img-files into the properties files.

It would be great if that could be fixed somehow.

mfg Tobi

Bug fix

by wpp-dev on Thu, 18/02/2010 - 02:06

Now absolute paths are normalized, but only if images and backgrounds are saved in \Bin\jEdit , \User\jEdit , \Documents\jEdit or \Backups\jEdit directories. I hope this release fix the problem:
http://www.winpenpack.com/en/download.php?view.840

Please, let me know.
Thank you for the feedback! Eye-wink

Workaround

by Robert Schwenn on Thu, 11/02/2010 - 19:11

I added a "startup_2.bsh" into the startup directory with the following lines:

JEDIT_HOME = jEdit.getJEditHome();
jEdit.setTemporaryProperty("active_buffer/Open_in_UltraEdit.icon", "file:" + JEDIT_HOME + "\\icons\\UEdit.png");

So, the macro "%JEDIT_HOME%/macros/active_buffer/Open_in_UltraEdit.bsh" gets the icon %JEDIT_HOME%\icons\UEdit.png. The property should be removed manually from the "properties" file.

Robert

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Sort_Lines.bsh	1.0	3615
ReadOnly_Buffer.bsh	1.0	2905
Macro to sort lines like in Ultraedit updated	1.1	3311
Upper/Lower/Invert/Capitalize Case Macros WHITHOUT unselecting text	1.0	2791
iEdit Launcher-like program (doesn't need .NET)	1.0	2783
Cherrypy mode	0.4	2459
Geo coordinates converter macro	1.0	4150
Editmodes for SwitchBuffer	0.1	3717
Macro_Popup.bsh	1.0	4202
Character_Info.bsh	1.0	4159

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JBuilder scheme	.001	6880
XP icons for jEdit	1.1	6760
R Edit Mode - extensive version	0.1	6420
ColdFusion scheme	1.0	6266
Advanced HTML edit mode	1.0	6188
jEdit XP icons	1.0	6064
BBEdit scheme	1.0	5919
Matlab Edit Mode	1.0	5854
JDiff Plugin for Jedit 4.2 pre xx	1.4.1	5687
Python Commando File	1.0	5685

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