Converting offsets to screen locations
The following methods have been deprecated: yToLine(), lineToY(), xToOffset(), offsetToX(). These methods do not support the concept of one "physical" line being split over several "screen" lines.

Instead, you should now use the xyToOffset() and offsetToXY() methods.
A bonus of using these methods is that in most cases, there is no need to perform physical to virtual translation; these methods operate on offsets from the beginning of the buffer.

A new beta plugin from Calvin Yu awaits you in the Downloads section. The Docker plugin will automatically expand and collapse a view's tabbed panes based on mouse and focus movements.

We have restored all content and services to jEdit Community following a security breach at around 1430 UTC on October 24. We also took the opportunity to upgrade portions of the web portal software. Our apologies for the interruption in service.

The documentation outlines each of the more than 200 classes and interfaces created by jEdit and provides a breakdown of its data fields, methods and relationships with other classes.

A version of the documentation suitable for local browsing remains available in our Downloads section.

The online documentation was generated using version 1.3 of Sun's javadoc tool and a doclet customized for jEdit Community.

* AntFarm 1.0.1: includes Ant 1.4.1, a bug fix release of Ant; fixed NPE caused by build files that did not have a name specified for the project; the Console is not brought to the front when selecting build files or targets from the tree view; removed remaining JDK 1.2 dependencies; requires jEdit 3.2final, Console 3.0, EditBus 1.1, XML 0.3, and JDK 1.1

* FTP 0.3.1: renaming and saving files didn't work with the Microsoft FTP server; made file listing parsing code more compatible with servers that use non-English month names; Connecting to a different port didn't work properly; requires jEdit 2.7pre2 and JDK 1.1

Multiple installations on Windows

If you are running jEdit under Windows, follow these steps using jEditLauncher:

First, download the installer for the new version, save it to your desktop or some other temporary location, and run it by double-clicking its file icon (if you have associated .jar archive files with a Java application loader) or by running the loader - either java.exe or javaw.exe - from a command line with the -jar parameter and the full path of the installer file as the target.

Next, select an installation directory for the new version that differs from your existing installation directoy. The default value offered by the installer specifies the version in the directory's name, so that will work fine.

A new theme, "Binary", is available for your inspection and use if you are a registered member of jEdit Community. It is adapted from the theme of the same name created by Dezina and released for public use. This has potential as our signature "default" theme. What do you think?

To do this, you will need the Windows Script Host, which is installed on most versions of Windows. The latest version, Windows Script Host 5.6, is available by download from Microsoft's MSDN web site. The most recent version compatible with Windows 95 is Windows Script Host 5.5. You will also need the script launch_same_ie.js, available in the Downloads section.

jEdit 4.0 development is moving along well. I have recently started writing a new document model, which will bring performance and memory usage improvements. There are also a lot of UI changes that improve the general jEdit experience. I plan on releasing a '4.0pre0 snapshot' in maybe a week's time; this will not be an official release, but rather something that plugin developers and daring users can try out. Me and John Gellene will then start updating the documentation, and when that is done, I will release 4.0pre1.

Originally written by Dirk Moebius and revised by Sergey Udaltsov, the Sessions plugin maintains lists of open files as workspaces called "sessions". It provides functions for creating, naming, maintaining and loading sessions.

• Dump_Project_File_Names.bsh writes a list of files in current view of the Project Viewer plugin to a new buffer.


• Edit_jEdit_Property.bsh displays a dialog for viewing and editing individual jEdit properties, including properties set by plugins and custom properties set by users.


• Make_Extra_Console.bsh creates a separate instance of the Console plugin interface in its own frame window. This allows you to run and view output from separate external processes from within jEdit.

jEdit news will no longer be posted on the SourceForge project page. Now, everything will be posted on the community site, and an HTML news feed will be incorporated into the jEdit home page.

What should be our next survey? We can even have more than one at the same time. Nominate a question by adding a comment to this article.

The Tags plugin, created by Kenrick Drew, allows you to jump to the definition of a specific language object or "tag" using tag index files. The index files are created by the ctags program available for both Windows and UNIX-based systems. You can obtain a robust version of ctags from the Exuberant C Tags project site.

The author of JMonkey, Ashley Williams, describes this new plugin as follows:

The JMonkey plugin is a collection of file system helpers, known as JMonkeys. There are currently two JMonkeys available:

An online version of the User's Guide for the current "stable" version of jEdit, version 3.2.2, is now available on the jEdit Community web site. This is the same version of the User's Guide distributed with the current release of JEdit. Each page of the guide is separately displayed and can be presented in a printer-friendly format by clicking on the printer icon in the upper-right corner of the page's center column. We hope you find this facility useful.

Thanks to Lionel Fiol for the "Made with jEdit" button logo that now appears at the bottom of our pages. Other contributions of graphics, or suggestions about themes for the jEdit Community site as a whole, are very welcome.