Well, I work with BBCode a lot to write up guides for forums and such, and have found that it would be a lot easier if there were a way to highlight syntax for it, I've looked through the User Doc, and the Wiki (Which appears to be broken), and haven't found a way to fix this up myself. So I'm requesting it. :/

I love jEdit, it resembles my all time linux editor Kate with the window splitting. jEdit has many functionalities, but one that could aid a programmer in getting work done _how_ they want to, would be:

On keyPresses deleting left or right bracket (from ex:" (test) ") would find the first closing or opening bracket and delete it as well. If the word 'test' was another longer word, moving the cursor to the beginning or ending of the word by means of arrow keys or CTRL + arrow keys takes longer to perform since it has 2x as many presses of the backspace button.

One change doesn't make a difference, but if your going through a stack status conditions and there's a lot of manipulation going on, it would come as a great help;

I hope you implement it. I am hooked on jEdit while on 'doze.

Thanks

Hello all,

I use jEdit quite a bit and one of the features that I always use is the Marker feature, which allows me to get back to certain locations after having switched to another buffer.

Unfortunately jEdit markers create a temporary MARKS file locally for each file that has been "marked". This starts getting confusing, especially if there are many files in a directory.

I think it would be great to have jEdit, store this kind of information in a central location (such as the jEdit Settings Folder). As a matter of fact, jEdit already stores information about individual files, such as last line, in the jEdit settings Folder.

I'm curious to know what everyone thinks of this idea!

Sincerely,

Taha

I noticed you have a "chatbox" on the community website. Everytime I use it no one is ever on. My suggestion is to create a chatbox plugin to put into jEdit. I believe this will allow others to obtain help quickly from experienced jEdit users.

If anyone is like me and keeps their jEdit App open at all times (for me at work) then this could prove useful when trying to obtain help quickly.



Alex Cory
Dominion Enterprises

When I split the window into two or more panes (View | Splitting | Split {horizontally, vertically}), it's hard for me to tell which pane the cursor is in. (OK, if jEdit is the only app I'm using, I can probably remember, but when I switch to a different app and then come back, my memory fails me.)

Currently, the only way (AFAIK) is to look for the "caret". But this can be hard to notice, even if it's a blinking red (outline) block. (No comments on my eyesight, please!)

My suggestion: when the current line is highlighted (Global Options, in the dialog box "Highlight current line" is checked under jEdit->Text Area), only highlight the current line of the *active* pane (= active "Text Area").

An alternative or additional possibility would be to slightly gray the non-active pane.

Mike Maxwell

I am having trouble getting my syntax highlighting to work with one form of comments. I am making a highlighter for Pick BASIC. Comments can be in the following format:

REM This is a comment
* This is a comment
A = A + 1 ;* Everything after the * is a comment
100 * Everything after the * is a comment. The 100 is a label.
MYLABEL: * Everything after the * is a comment. The MYLABEL: part is a label.

Currently everything is highlighting fine except the last two comment types. It doesn't seem to recognize them as comments. Here's the relevant part of the highlighter xml:

<MODE>
	<PROPS>
<!--		<PROPERTY NAME="lineComment" VALUE="*" /> -->
	</PROPS>

	<RULES IGNORE_CASE="TRUE" HIGHLIGHT_DIGITS="TRUE">
		<SPAN TYPE="LITERAL1" NO_LINE_BREAK="TRUE">
			<BEGIN>"</BEGIN>
			<END>"</END>
		</SPAN>
		<SPAN TYPE="LITERAL2" NO_LINE_BREAK="TRUE">
			<BEGIN>'</BEGIN>
			<END>'</END>
		</SPAN>


		<!-- conditional compilation -->
		<EOL_SPAN_REGEXP TYPE="COMMENT1" AT_LINE_START="TRUE">\d+ \*</EOL_SPAN_REGEXP>
		<EOL_SPAN TYPE="KEYWORD2">#if</EOL_SPAN>
		<EOL_SPAN TYPE="KEYWORD2">#else</EOL_SPAN>
		<EOL_SPAN TYPE="KEYWORD2">#end</EOL_SPAN>

		<EOL_SPAN TYPE="COMMENT1" AT_WHITESPACE_END="TRUE">*</EOL_SPAN>
		<EOL_SPAN TYPE="COMMENT1">;*</EOL_SPAN>
		<EOL_SPAN TYPE="COMMENT1">; *</EOL_SPAN>
		<EOL_SPAN TYPE="COMMENT1">REM</EOL_SPAN>

Functions and operators are listed below here but didn't seem relevant to the problem. Any help on getting this working would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!

jEdit 4.3pre8 using Java 1.5.0_09

Hello,

I'm using a plugin called the Configurable Fold Handler in jEdit. It comes in handy for wrapping up code in the window using little triangles in the left sidebar. I tried to print my code today where I had a fold inside of it. I didn't expect the fold to print out since it was folded. I expected it to print out 1 line where the fold was displaying, but it actually printed out the entire contents of the fold.

Is there a way to print what the buffer window EXACTLY looks like so that it doesn't print the fold contents? if not, could this be implemented with a future release of a plugin?



to redo this issue:
fold a piece of code within your normal fold tags, for me thats { /* open and } */ close. Configurable Fold Handler should use regular expressions for this aka. \{|/\* and \}|\*/ I'm using php but I'm pretty sure this issue can arise in C,C++,and Java.



Thanks,

Alex Cory
Dominion Enterprises

I'd like to be able to select columns (vertically). I've seen this in one of Microsoft's Visual Studio editors (version 6 if I recall) and it is incredibly useful. Holding down a modifier key like shift, control or alt and dragging a rectangle across multiple lines should select columns (ie. cols 3, 4 & 5 across several full-length lines) which can then be cut/copy/pasted across multiple columns, inserting the text into the middle of multiple lines. This is very useful for HTML as well as programming code, allowing a developer to paste a list of variables or parameters into several lines of similar code.

Is there a way to do this already or to have someone implement this functionality in jEdit?

I am looking for a feature to allow me to change jedits default fold strings from {{{ }}} to something like { }.

I used to use the customizable folds plugin, but that hasnt worked since 4.3pre2. It appears something changed in the api, and the plugin is no longer actively developed.


Someone PLEASE help... Jedit is the best editor on the planet, and it can no longer do automatic folding...

Could you please change the Line Comment (Edit > Source > Line Comment) and Block Comment (Edit > Source > Block Comment) actions to toggle comments instead of simply adding them. i.e. If the selected text is already marked as a comment then remove the comment marking.

Is there any way to hide columns in the File System Browser? I don't care to see anything but the file/directory name. I'll edit config files, install a plug-in, whatever it takes.

I've been looking for this feature for a long time. Does it already exist somehow, somewhere? If not, how hard is it to add the feature? From my non-application developer perspective, it would be as simple as not showing the columns that are unchecked in a preferences pane somewhere.

Please let me know.

Thanks,
Matthew

I find it tedious to set up my syntax highligting options and key bindings. Is there a way to do this programmatically?

/Johannes

I'd like to request a dual folding mode where the editor creates folds on indentation *and* explicit folds. This would allow hiding of sections of code within methods etc. where indentation wouldn't make sense. It would act much like Microsoft Visual Studio's "region" folding. So you could have something like:

  public class HelloWorld
v {
    public static void Main()
v   {
      System.out.println("Hello World!");
v     //{{{ Some code that can be folded.
      // Many lines of code here
      // Many lines of code here
      // Many lines of code here
      // Many lines of code here
      // Many lines of code here
L     //}}}
L   }

    public static void AnotherMethod()
v   {
      // Many lines of code here
      // Many lines of code here
      // Many lines of code here
      // Many lines of code here
      // Many lines of code here
L   }
L }

Which would fold into:

  public class HelloWorld
v {
    public static void Main()
v   {
      System.out.println("Hello World!");
>     //{{{ Some code that can be folded.
      //}}}
L   }

    public static void AnotherMethod()
>   {
    }
L }

I hope that made sense. Thanks, Brian Peiris

Hi

for sure my question is non-sense but I try : is it possible to dock another application (such xcalc or xclock or putty, etc..) inside jedit ?

bye

Hi there,

I am Very picky about syntax highlighting... I love a good aesthetic, and, the more descriptive the highlighitng scheme the better in my opinion. What I would like - and I may be able to do this myself if I knew how! - IS to highlight punctuation marks when they are in the reserved context (by this I mean, outside of string literals). This highlights the fact that in code fragment that include lines like:

bike2.changeCadence(50);

The period, open and close parentheses and semicolon are an original part of the Java language. Right now the first colout that springs to mind, in context of the normal jEdit scheme, is dark blue. Possible?

jEdit has proven to be an environment that has grown on me. Since being off put slightly by the looks at first, I have kept returning for its rapid-rise response curve. I mean, after just a few tries, my edit sessions have gathered enourmous pace, which I can't say for any other editor. Please keep up the good work.

When I open a ".c" file over a SFTP connection (using the FTP plug-in) CodeBrowser is unable to display the functions/variables.

If I open the same file on my local hard drive, it works.

Best regards,

Phil

How can I run a buffer on the server where the buffer is recorded ?...

I'd love to be able to search files using a "grep" command. Sometimes I work on a Windows machine, and MS's "find" command many times simply isn't flexible enough. Also, there's something to be said about not leaving the window in which you're working.

The title says it all. When using BufferTabs if you split the screen BufferTabs happily duplicates ALL of the tabs in each split screen. If I have a lot of buffers open this can waste 1/3 of my screen real estate!
Of course, the tabs should be shown ONCE across the bottom and not duplicated when the view is split.

Hi all,

the jEdit has the nice JDiff Plugin. But sometimes I need to diff two folders. I would be nice to have a Plugin to select two folders and the different files will be shown in JDiff. So the most difficult things are done and there is just an interface needed between JDiff and "FolderDiff".