I have upgraded from 4.1 final to 4.2pre8 and later 4.2pre11. It seems like it is somewhat upgraded because the plugins seem to load on demand and not at startup. However some plugins fail saying "xxx plugin requires 4.2pre x and you have version 4.1 final". This is under XP pro. I have tried installing clean in a new directory as well as installing on top of the previous installation. I have also tried removing the user settings and letting it rebuild them also. Do I need to fake out the registry? Any other ideas?

Hi, this is Carlos, from Brazil. I instaled JEdit 4.2pre11. I'm new with JEdit. I loaded a sample and tryed compile / run. But it does not work. Please, can I help me? Maybe a tutorial with step to step for JEdit 4.2. Is it possible?

Thanks,
CarloSilva.

I know its a stupid question but I can't find the answer.

How do I install jEdit on XP for ALL users?

I installed jEdit on XP as administrator.

Normal users have "Open with jEdit" on the context menu but jEdit won't run.

This is what I have tried:

a) Installing jEditLauncher as user

Run jEdit.exe, say yes to install jEditLauncher, point at my java executable

Result ==> "JEdit.JEditLauncher - The system cannot find the file specified."

b) User reinstalls jEdit himself.

Install appears to complete OK.

Result ==> Still no Start Menu Entry, no shortcut on desktop, no jEditLauncher, no GO

c) set jedit parameters (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=718007)

I didn't try this because I have no idea what it means.

d) Run jEdit.jar

This works but the context menus still don't work. Since I almost always launch jEdit
from the context menus, this is not really satisfactory.

e) Manually edit registry

Logon as Administrator, run RegEdit, export HKEY_CURRENT_USER/software/www.jedit.org =>jedit.reg
Logon as unprivileged user, run Regedit import jedit.reg into HKEY_CURRENT_USER/software

This appears to work. But users shouldn't have to edit the registry.

thanks
Russell Thamm

I'm currently trying to install jedit on a computer. I've done one installation on another computer and that worked out nice.

Anyway when I doubleclick on the jar file i.e. jedit41install.jar nothing happens. I've got j2sdk 1.4.2_03 installed so that isn't the problem. I've tried to execute the jar file manually with jawaw.exe aswell but is doesn't work either.

What am I doing wrong here?

Hey Folks,
I was wondering if anybody has had any success getting jEdit to run under yellowdog linux (a linux/ppc distro for apple computers)

I have the latest blackdown linux version installed (1.3.1) and get the same errors when I launch the jEdit Java Based installer.

The first install window comes up saying someting to the effect that "You need to answer the questions in the following screens ..." and the window has the cancel, prev/next buttons just fine

Any time the mouse moves over the content area of the Java Window, I get this error:
Exception occurred during event dispatching:
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 6213
at java.awt.Toolkit$SelectiveAWTEventListener.eventDispatched(Toolkit.java:1520)
at java.awt.Toolkit.notifyAWTEventListeners(Toolkit.java:1390)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:2507)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1213)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:926)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2497)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:339)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:131)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:98)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:85)



And any time I try to click one of the buttons, I get this:
Exception occurred during event dispatching:
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 674
at java.awt.Toolkit$SelectiveAWTEventListener.eventDispatched(Toolkit.java:1520)
at java.awt.Toolkit.notifyAWTEventListeners(Toolkit.java:1390)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:2507)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventToSelf(Container.java:1233)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:2449)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.trackMouseEnterExit(Container.java:2314)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:2189)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:2125)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1200)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:926)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2497)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:339)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:131)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:98)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:85)

any and all help would be greatly appreciated

thanks,
-steve

I love Jedit and am installing it on all the computers I am using. I have my own global options set up. Is there a easy way to copy my existing options to a new machine after installation. Curretly I have to re-configuring the options everytime.

I've been using JEdit for awhile now, on the recent pre9 build now. I want to start working on plugin enhancements locally, then submit them...but at some point in the past I started downloading plugins without the source code. I don't want to remove and reinstall the plugins as I will lose configuration--but I want to get the source code for the plugins I have. The Plugin Manager doesn't appear to have this option for installed plugins, only new ones.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Patrick

I've been trying for the last couple of hours to install jEdit on my computer at work but can't seem to make this happen. As I recall the last time I installed this software on my home computer it was quite simple. I have tried following your instructions on http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download but haven't had any luck. I'm hoping you can provide me some guidance before I abandon this software and try something else. I am running Windows 2000 Pro on both my of my systems at home and at work.

So far this is what I have done:
1. Downloaded the latest stable verson (4.1) to a directory named c:\Downloads
2. From here I extracted the jedit41install.jar into the same directory i.e., c:\Downloads
3. Ok . . . Now what???

Whenever I try to install jEdit on Solaris 8 I get an error about it not being able to create a dirctory. Here is a text log:

a0864763@giovanni [/home/a0864763] java -jar jedit41install.jar text
*** jEdit 4.1 installer
Installation directory: [/home/a0864763/jedit/4.1] /home/a0864763/bin/jedit/4.1
Install shortcut in: [/home/a0864763/bin]
Install manual page in: [/home/a0864763/man/man1]
*** Program components to install
Install jEdit text editor (4888Kb) [Y/n]?
Install Default set of macros (highly recommended) (168Kb) [Y/n]?
Install API documentation (for macro and plugin development) (7028Kb) [Y/n]? n
*** Starting installation...
Installing jedit-program
Installing jedit-macros
Performing task unix-script
*** An error occurred: The installer could not create the destination directory.
Maybe you do not have write permission?
a0864763@giovanni [/home/a0864763]

I'm installing this in my home directory and I do have write permission everywhere in my home directory.

Please help.

Thanks,
Marlan

I just installed jedit on my XP box using the admin account. The installation went smoothly, but now I can't access the application from other accounts. Is there a way to share jedit with multiple XP accounts?

Thanks,

--Dan

Hello,

I have tried installing both jedit41install.jar and jedit42pre8install.jar on Windows XP Professional, and when the first installation dialog box comes up, I cannot click the Next button. All I get is a double-headed arrow and nothing in the dialog responds. The only way out is for me to right-click on the Task Bar button and stop the JAR file.

Has anyone else seen this behavior? I was able to install JEdit just fine on two other computers -- what could be the problem in this case?

Thanks for any help.

# jedit
Warning: JAVA_HOME environment variable not set.
Exception in thread "main" java.util.zip.ZipException: Permission denied
	at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
	at java.util.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:112)
	at java.util.jar.JarFile.(JarFile.java:127)
	at java.util.jar.JarFile.(JarFile.java:65)

The cause is the dir /usr/share/jedit not having r-x permissions for "other". Of course this is fixed by simply saying chmod -R o+rX /usr/share/jedit .

I noticed that the dir is missing in the list of files provided by the rpm (as in the output of rpm -q --list -p jedit-4.1-1.noarch.rpm), so this might be the problem and should be fixed. It probably doesn't arise if you don't have such a restrictive umask like me, but then again some people may and they will run into the same problem, so I thought I'd just qickly post this.

Greetings,
Daniel

Hi,
Having heard only good things about this editor, I've decided to try it out for myself.
Unfortunately, nothing I do seems to get it to install on my system. I'm running Windows XP, have installed Java VM (J2SE v 1.4.2_03), yet executing the jar file - either double clicking in explorer window or running from command line (tried "java -jar ..." and "javaw -jar ...") - results in error. I'm getting "Fatal exception" in windows or "Exception in thread "main" java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file" when using prompt.

Before I give up and try another editor, does anyone have a clue on how I can solve this?

Ever since i have panther jedit (4.1 final) doesn't work anymore.
I it start jedit it will open a very small window called untiteld1 also a small icon is opened in the dock, if i click on it, it disapears
Reinstalling won't work

I hope someone can tell me how i can get it working again

Does anybody know how to use the command line under OSX?

ex: sudo jedit /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

OSX Panther
Java 1.4.1
jEdit 4.2pre8

thanks very much
Manuel

Can someone help me set my JAVA_HOME variable? I'm running RH9. I've been through the FAQs, a couple of web pages, and I'm not having much luck. Will I need to set the path in one of my command prompt files, or in /usr/bin/jedit?

Thanks In Advance,
Chris Leonard

I know this isn't a jEdit question per se... but I've looked everywhere on the web and groups for an answer.

I get the message 'No Print Service Found' when trying to print on RedHat 9 with Blackdown's 1.4. JVM. Can anyone suggest how to configure this, or a place to look. I can print OK on a Windows install.

thanks

To be exact; this is a KDE problem.

JEdit 4.1 final installs fine in Mandrake 9.2. A fresh install of j2re1.4.2_03 followed by linking j2re; export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re; and a single command "jedit" from terminal results in a running application.

Now, why will KDE -not- open JEdit? "jedit" from the quicklauncher does not open the application. The ADD Application from medudrake with command "jedit" also does not work.I do not want to open a terminal each time to use jedit. help!

Please help a newbie fix my simple problem with KDE/jedit.