I realize I might not get any reply from the poster himself, but if someone could enlighten me on how to setup ctags to do this I would be very grateful. My futile attempts so far hasn't brought anything into the codebrowser plugin.

I hadn't tried this before, but yesterday I got ctags working with Jump, so I thought I'd see if I could work this out for CodeBrowser.

Anyway, I'm using 4.2pre9 on windows xp pro, and what I did was this:

Download ctags ec553w32.zip from http://ctags.sourceforge.net

I extracted the contents of the zip file into my jedit installation directory, so my file system contains:


C:\Program Files\jEdit 4.2pre9\ctags553


I installed CodeBrowser 1.3.1
and in the plugin options for CodeBrowser entered the following:
ctags path: Program Files\jEdit 4.2pre9\ctags553\ctags.exe
#Parse caches: 10 (the default)

I then opened up a .java source file (I presume this would work for any supported file type)


I opened up CodeBrowser from Plugins menu, made sure the 'auto' checkbox was ticked and hey presto! CodeBrowser is populated with details of my class. If auto isn't ticked, I think it populates when you save the class. It didn't load up first time, but I think a combo of checking/unchecking the 'auto' box, and saving my source file kick-started it into action.

So I guess your prob might be in the ctags path config, or just being unlucky as basically I have done nothing else to make it work.

hth

I had my jEdit installed on D: drive and untaring exuberant ctags under d:\Program Files\jEdit did not work for me. But when I added the the directory path containing ctags.exe to the PATH environment variable for the user, it worked fine. I also specified only relative path in the plugin options for CodeBrowser (just ctags.exe).

Thanks,
Anand

First of all, thanks for those instructions - they worked great in terms of enabling my STRUCTURE BROWSER.

But FOLDS don't seem to work for php. Obviously I can use "indent" mode for folding, but I'm dealing with some poorly formatted code and would real and proper folding. When I select the "sidekick" method, it doesn't seem to create any folds for me even though the structure browser has detected a whole bunch of functions.

Am I missing something? Thanks.

"The ConfigurableFoldHandler plugin adds a new fold handler to jEdit that allows the user to specify the strings that define the start and end of a fold."

I've specified myself {}, () and /**/ as foldable pairs - sometimes I've got very long conditionals over multiple lines, and it's very nice to be able to fold them - and folding long comments is a joy too.

I agree this is a very good plugin.

More power is added when you use the regular expressions feature to specify fold start and fold end strings/characters.