Hey,
vi being old and daunting at first is cool and much faster than any other editor. But who wants to go to console these days when big programming tools are available.
Searching for a word is one of the most frequent things i do. Specially to track the use of variables. Vi makes it easier than any other editor.

Rather than a big daunting window to FIND one word it is more friendly to pop a box in the bottom like in firefox and just give in a command to do a flexible search. And not only search but many many functions if the features from vi are brought into the box. For hard core programmers it will be a boon. Plugin may be a good option for this one.

Thank You

I am frequently working on multiple projects at once and currently the only options for managing those projects' files in jEdit are pretty limited.

Current possibilities:
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1. Have all the buffers open at once

This becomes an unmanageable mess.

2. Have multiple view panes (split vertically/horizontally) and have different buffers open in each

This is messy as I need to remember which view pane has which project (some are similar and not immediately obvious), and constantly move their "walls" to show and hide them.

3. Have different setting folders for each project

This is very inefficient as switching between projects requires restarting jEdit from the command line with the project's settings folder.

SUGGESTION
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Instead, it would be incredibly powerful to have project groups just like Firefox's Panorama (Tab Groups). You can put buffers into a group, name the group and then when you switch to that group, it would minimize the previous group's buffers and open the new group's buffers only.

As well, jEdit would enable ctrl-tab to switch between the project groups. When a user presses ctrl-tab, it would popup a visual list (like alt-tab for windows) over the current buffer with all the Project Groups' names so you could easily switch between groups. (And pressing ctrl-tab again moves to the next group just like alt-tab)

I keep dozens of files open in jEdit. At any given time I'm usually
flipping between a small subset of them. The buffer switcher orders files alphabetically,
so I often have to switch repeatedly between files at the beginning and end of
the buffer switcher list which means scrolling the list if both files are not visible.
ctrl+` is okay for switching between 2 files but I'm usually in a slightly bigger loop.

alt+f alt+f brings up the recent files list. It's order eludes me but it is not ordered by time last edited. I can change the order by reloading files but this is extra key strokes and doesn't keep up
with changing patterns of file use.

Anyone have any other existing solutions? I suspect this could be done in a plugin. Any existing plugins? If not I'll submit a formal feature request.

Hi,

That would be cool for the plugin manager to :

1. select only plugin available for the current version of jEdit
2. disable all plugin that can't work for the current version of jEdit

I remember the customisable fold handler that didn't work from 4.2 to 4.3...

Also, if we could have an update manager ala Firefox Bon Echo (2.0), that would be the best Eye-wink

(Anyway, I don't know if it's the first thing I would do if I were developping for jEdit)


Wholesale fashion

I'm developing an IDE-like application where I would like to use jEdit (or parts of it) as a source code editor.

It's great that the text area is provided as a component that can be used independently of the jEdit application. However, this just provides the text area – I need to provide menus, toolbars, actions, file management (loading/saving/...) externally.

What would be even greater is thus something like a jEdit view, only that it is not a window, but an ordinary component that I can embed my own components.

Is anything like this planned – or already available, and I have overlooked it?

How is the Python mode (python.xml) file maintained? How does one communicate with its maintainer regarding changes?

Yesterday, I suddenly registered how used my -key looks, compared to the rest of my keyboard. I investigated for the reason, and found me pressing -s in jEdit very often to save my modified buffer.

In that moment it struck me that an autosave-feature would be nice, which could be described as following:

The file is saved. You start typing. While you continue to type, your file remains unsaved. As soon as you stop to type, the clock starts ticking for a optional amount of seconds until your buffer gets saved automatically.

With "saved" I mean really saved, like with -s, and not the fallback-file with the filename enclosed in "#"-characters.

Such a feature would save me many keypresses and make it much more comfortable to point my mouse to a terminal and execute the modified program.

- Is such a feature already possible with the build-in macro language, or does someone has to create a plugin to make this wish come true?

It'll be very comfortable if jEdit will warn you before it overwrite an existing file.

With Textmate you can open a file via an URL from a browser, like txmt://open?url=file://%s&line=%s.
This is very useful if you develop with the playframework which shows you errors in the browser.
So you can jump directly to your file and line via the url.

does anyone have an exported profile that i could use to set all the shortcuts to windows standard ones? it would be nice if you could just select a shortcut scheme... *plugin/feature request*

The title sounds hideous but bear with me... When I type: /** and then hit enter. It would be great if the next '*' would automatically appear on clicking enter: /** * <- space here for formatting. Then if I clicked enter again, I'd get: /** * <- space here for formatting. * <- space here for formatting. When I add the final */ this auto-formatting ends; /** * <- space here for formatting. * <- space here for formatting. */ [Note that the string "<- space here for formatting." is just to let you know that a space comes after the *'s each time. It would be blank in practise... I hoped that was obvious ;)] It makes it really nice when writing JavaDoc / Doxygen / PHPDoc type comments. Of course as ever this should be an option, as it will annoy some people... we all have different tastes after all Thanks

It would be great if somehow a right mouse-click (i.e. context menu) would allow an option to go direct to a relevant programming manual.

e.g. If I'm editing a PHP file and I right mouse-click on file_get_contents() then the entry for that function in php.net is opened in a web browser. This functionality currently exists in other text editors. It would really make things easier. A similar thing for C or C++ and other languages would of course be great too.

Another cool idea would be so that when the user hovers over a library function a large tooltip appears showing the definition of the function and a one line description of what it does.

Apologies if this is already implemented somehow... I could not find it if it is.


Another idea is that feature requests and bugs should be all on sourceforge. It would seem more sensible.

Thanks again to all people involved in creating jEdit... I'm loving it

Hi,

I have noticed that there is a doxygen edit mode (doxygen is similar to javadoc or phpdoc for those who don't know - these are tools which autogenerate code documentation from specially formatted comments in source code).

The issue I have is that the edit mode for .php includes PHPDoc but doesn't include doxygen. I think the functionality should probably be that there is a default edit mode for php and a secondary edit mode which represents any auto-documentation edit mode types.

This would apply for people using java with javadoc, or php with phpdoc, or php with doxygen or c with doxygen etc. At the moment phpdoc edit mode seems to be hardwired in to php edit mode. I believe the primary / secondary edit mode work-around is more improved. Or at least have a way of selecting which auto-doc tool is to be associated with which files. I would like to be able to associate my php files with doxygen (as an editing mode) and not phpdoc.

Just a quick shout to all developers of this project... jEdit is awesome... especially as I develop on Windows, OSX and Linux at different times. It works on ALL of these... thanks thanks thanks :)

Hi all,

Long time reader, first time poster. I was thinking of adding a (probably awful) hack to the ActionBar to see if I could have the action bar do something like:

<ctrl+enter>action_name my_arg<enter>

For example, it could be "my.save.as filename.bak". Ofcourse, it would be a big effort to have this work for the built-in jEdit actions. But one could, perhaps, write a macro that took an argument like that. It would replace having to show a dialog box to collect simple input.

Any thoughts? Do you think it is possible and worth pursuing?

Cheers,
Irumat

Hi All,

I'm a total non-programmer so bear with me

I would love to be able to open/save to google docs (via a URL or ideally getting the doc list from google to choose file from within jEdit)?
I had a short play with python + gdata (docList?) and it seemed straight forward.

I hope that would give me some sort of syntax highlighting for google docs.


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Hi all,

alongside my comments request, I'm also trying to open HTML or PDF files in jEdit, especially PDF.

I found LilyPondTool that opens PDF in a pop-up, but I couldn't just find a simple PDF plug-in... is there one?

For HTML, the aim would be to open and eventually annotate HTML files in wysiwyg GUI (not seeing the HTML code). Would there be any advice for this?

JR

Hi all,

I'm fairly new to jEdit. I'm using it to experiment with edition in a general way, because I'm familiar with Java and because it is open-source with lots of plug-ins. I've just developped a basic plug-in and started browsing the existing ones.

I would like to use comments (or annotations) like there are in Word: not in the document, but about the document, displayed in a hover or dockable view. Apart from MS products (Word, XL) I don't really know any other editor that does this. I think maybe some PDF viewers do, or ebooks.

(caution: "comment" and "annotation" are not used here in the Java meaning)

Is there any plug-in that may do this?
Is there any plug-in that looks like going that way?

The only plug-in I found that looked vaguely interesting was TaskList which looks interesting because it shows extracted text in a dockable view. But none that addresses my particular issue.

Any help appreciated!
(otherwise this could become a feature request, but I'm not sure, I'm only experimenting here)
JR

Love jedit. A couple changes to the favorites feature I'd love to see:

1) The ability to edit favorites. I use them to store FTP connections for the FTP plugin, and right now if a password, username, or path changes, I have to delete the whole entry and add it again.

2) Favorites saved on the fly. Right now it seems changes to favorites are only saved when you exit the program. A few times I've entered a new favorite only to have the program or machine crash later in the session and I lose the favorite I'd already entered. IMO these should be saved automatically any time they're changed.

Thanks

Please add an option for jEdit to call/execute its built-in function "Complete Word" for every word after N first characters of this word have been typed.
You see, typing Ctrl+B for each word is tiresome, why don't jEdit itself (automatically) show the list of possible words after Nth first letters of a word have been typed?