I have just installed jEdit on a WindowsXp machine. When I attempt to print anything, including a test page with 3 words on it, it hesitates a few moments and then just shuts down (ie - jEdit crashes). I don't see anything in documentation on printing (ie - printer set-up or anything like that)other than a few very basic printer control commands (fonts and stuff like that). The printer is an HP Deskjet 930C with a USB connection.

Any ideas?

I seem to be having problems getting jEdit to render fonts properly on a PC (WinXP to be explicit). My preference is the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono fonts which are noted as the top choice elsewhere within this Wiki. On my Linux machine the fonts for jEdit render nice and crisp, but on my PC they are pretty awful -- lots of jaggies, etc. What puzzles me is that the same Bitstream VSM in another app like the venerable old WinEdit looks great. Is there something special you have to do for jEdit on a PC so that the fonts render as clearly as they do in other apps? I live in jEdit on my Linux machine, and would like to be able to do the same on my PC when I have to, but I cannot make jEdit render a font clearly on my PC ...

I seem to be having problems getting jEdit to render fonts properly on a PC (WinXP to be explicit). My preference is the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono fonts which are noted as the top choice elsewhere within this Wiki. On my Linux machine the fonts for jEdit render nice and crisp, but on my PC they are pretty awful -- lots of jaggies, etc. What puzzles me is that the same Bitstream VSM in another app like the venerable old WinEdit looks great. Is there something special you have to do for jEdit on a PC so that the fonts render as clearly as they do in other apps? I live in jEdit on my Linux machine, and would like to be able to do the same on my PC when I have to, but I cannot make jEdit render a font clearly on my PC ...

Hi,

i just downloaded jEdit on my Ubuntu and wanted to test it. It seems to be a very powerful editor (looking at the preferences) but when i try to create a new file there commes an error message (i'll post it requested) and if i try to load a file nothing happens. Could you please help my working on these problems? I realy would like to use the editor.

Prophet

As a long time programmer, a high quality text editor is crucial to what I do. I use heaver IDE's (Visual Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans) for a lot of my work, but for various SQL, scripting languages, and file searching, and text file processing, I use a separate dedicated text editor. I've been a long time user of EditPlus and am just now switching over to jEdit.

Overall, I'm very impressed with jEdit. I thought it would be unlikely to beat EditPlus and this did it. However, I'd like to share my thoughts and suggestions.

Pros:
- Cross Platform: Huge advantage. EditPlus is Windows only. jEdit runs on all Java platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris) so I can easily move between platforms.
- Free: I don't mind sending in a donation for a program I use so much, but it's so nice to not need to worry about licensing every copy I install
- Better Plug-in/Scripting/Macro support. By far. Excellent thus far.
- Awesome syntax highlighting for several languages (Java + SQL)

Cons:
- HyperSearch: I like EditPlus's setup much better. I wish the HyperSearch could be displayed in a pane in the main jEdit window rather than in a separate window. I also wish it displayed results as it found them rather than making you wait until the entire search is complete before showing you anything.
- Search/Replace: Regex support is buggy (didn't have time to boil down to simple cast and post, but I saw definite bugs). No multi-line Regex option. How do I replace \n\n with \n (eliminate blank lines)?
- No built-in sort/dedupe. Didn't see a plugin either. Maybe I missed this? This is crucial for a text editor.
- No "column selection". Did I miss this? Very important feature.
- No ability to set "type" of unsaved buffer. Sometimes I typing SQL into a buffer that I don't want to save, but I want syntax highlighting.
- No keyboard shortcut to enable/disable soft word-wrap. I frequently need to turn this on/off. I hate having to navigate the menus to do this.
- Name. I love Java, but this is product really excels as a general purpose text editor rather than a Java specific tool. Couldn't this use a less Java-centric name? Most .NET coworkers would love this tool but be turned off by the name.

Hi,

I have been using Jedit as a latex editor for a while. In the latest upgrade of latex tools there is an autocomplete function. I dont like the way this works, for example when typing \item in a document i get a popup saying "no completion". This blocks the keyboard. How can I turn this feature off?

Many thanks,

Olly

There seems no way to "properly" uninstall.

Win2k
jEdit 4.3pre5
Java Version 1.5.0 (build 1.5.0_07-b03)

Nothing in add/remove
no uninstall files i can find
nothing in start programs

Do I just delete the entire folder?

Thanks for the help.

I'm stuck. I don't know what to do. After years of being very satisfied with jEdit 4.1 (I once upgraded to 4.2 but went back to 4.1 because it had had various features that I liked removed), my need for support for PHP5 syntax finally prompted me to try upgrading to jEdit 4.3. I'm baffled - it seems to be several steps down from 4.1. 4.1 was great: I'd select a plug-in, download it, and it would just work straight away. However, this time:

1. the XML plugin is behaving extremely erratically. It won't autoclose tags for me, doesn't pop up the autocomplete menu, and it only says anything is allowed at the caret position after I've already placed the opening '<'.
2. the CodeBrowser plugin identifies classes, functions, etc, but doesn't allow me to jump to them - making it essentially useless.
3. jEdit doesn't seem to remember all my settings any more: I like to have a search bar at the top of the screen, but I have to open it from the menu every time with 4.3. Likewise, BufferTabs is erratic - sometimes it remembers to open, sometimes it doesn't and I have to open it.
4. the jEdit Launcher thing is gone. Why? What possible reason could there be for reducing jEdit's functionality like that? I know this went in 4.2 - it was one of the reasons I went back to 4.1 - but I'd hoped that, like the soft-wrap thing, someone would put it back in 4.3. What logic is there to removing features as you go along?

...So now I'm stuck. I don't know what to do. I'm so used to and comfortable with jEdit that the idea of trying to find (and start from scratch with) an alternative is boring beyond belief, but as it stands, no version of jEdit (4.1, 4.2, or 4.3) seems to meet my (surely not particularly avant-garde) needs - ie. editing PHP5 code and HTML. Can anyone help me fix the problems above? Or, better still, does anyone have a PHP5 edit mode for jEdit 4.1?

I just installed 4.3pre5 and then installed FTP plugin from the plugin manager (which required a couple other plugins which i installed as well). I did nothing else before trying to FTP: it didn't work right. Instead of trying to FTP, it would be stuck saying "Loading..." and the progress bar at the bottom of the screen just said "Input/Output Complete". It didn't appear to even attempt anything else. I checked with another coder friend of mine and he had the same problem.

NOTE: SFTP appears to work perfectly.

Please help!

Thanks!
Jeremy

Please forgive the runon text - this is my first post and I've struggled trying to get spacing as per my original I’m running JEdit4.2Final on a Windows XP system. After upgrading to jdk-1_5_0_07 and changing the PATH accordingly to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_07\bin, Java compiles and runs buffers correctly, the JythonInterpreter (v 0.9.6) plugin works, BUT, when try to execute the JPYDEBUG plugin (v 0.16), I get: “A BeanShell error occurred:” (why BeanShell?) with the text: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.gjt.sp.jedit.textarea.JEditTextArea.getBuffer()Lorg/gjt/sp/jedit/buffer/JEditBuffer; at org.jymc.jpydebug.jedit.PythonJeditPanel.install(PythonJeditPanel.java:362) at org.jymc.jpydebug.jedit.PythonJeditPanel.activate(PythonJeditPanel.java:204) at org.jymc.jpydebug.jedit.PythonJeditPanel.(PythonJeditPanel.java:186) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494) at bsh.Reflect.constructObject(Reflect.java:668) at bsh.BSHAllocationExpression.constructObject(BSHAllocationExpression.java:123) [...] The corresponding excerpt from the Activity Log is: […] [debug] EditPlugin$JAR: Opening C:\Documents and Settings\Leon.Traister\.jedit\jars\JPyDebug.jar [debug] JPYJeditPlugin: 'start' of Python Debug Plugin [debug] EditBus: PluginUpdate[what=ACTIVATED,exit=false,source=C:\Documents and Settings\Leon.Traister\.jedit\jars\JPyDebug.jar,class=org.jymc.jpydebug.jedit.JPYJeditPlugin] [debug] JPYJeditPlugin: Entering python debug menu [debug] DockableWindowManager: Loading dockables from jeditresource:/JPyDebug.jar!/dockables.xml [debug] PythonJeditPanel: Initing PythonJeditPanel [debug] PythonJeditPanel: Adding to JEditBus [debug] EditPlugin$JAR: Opening C:\Documents and Settings\Leon.Traister\.jedit\jars\jython.jar [debug] PythonJeditPanel: Installing pane [error] BeanShell: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.gjt.sp.jedit.textarea.JEditTextArea.getBuffer()Lorg/gjt/sp/jedit/buffer/JEditBuffer; [error] BeanShell: at org.jymc.jpydebug.jedit.PythonJeditPanel.install(PythonJeditPanel.java:362) [error] BeanShell: at org.jymc.jpydebug.jedit.PythonJeditPanel.activate(PythonJeditPanel.java:204) [error] BeanShell: at org.jymc.jpydebug.jedit.PythonJeditPanel.(PythonJeditPanel.java:186) [error] BeanShell: at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) [..] Help appreciated! Leon T.

Hello
I have been happy using JEdit version 4.2 final under windows for some time and been very happy with it.

I recently upgraded the JDK to 1.5.0_07-b03 and now I have a problem. The problem seems to coincide with the new version of JDK but I can't be 100% sure. It still edits files OK and if I open the file via "File - Open - select file" then all is well.

If I open a file via a right click and the "Open with JEdit" option, then
if the filename is longer than the old MSDOS 8.3 format it edits the file OK but displays the filename using Microsoft's dodgy 8.3 with a tilda format.

e.g. I open the file:
common_rep_lib_body.sql
JEdit tells me I am editing a file named:
COMMON~4.SQL

This smells a bit like Windows is passing a dodgy filename to JEdit however it worked OK before and it still works OK when I open the same file using a right click and "Open with" a different application like Notepad.

Any ideas ?

I love jEdit - have tried it on Windows, Linux, and Mac (Windows / Mac at work, Windows / Linux at home). On my windows machine, jEdit now freezes when I go to 'File|Open' or use 'CTRL+o'. Doing a right click on a file and opening from the menu works though. Two questions - anyone run into this and found a fix? And if not, what is the most useful information I can provide (and how) so I'm not just saying 'hey, it doesn't work when I do this' but providing something useful?

Thanks!

After upgrading to 4.3pre4 I am missing the Structure scope indicator in the gutter. The corresponding setting is activated. Anyone else having this problem? Any solutions? I'm running jEdit on Windows XP and Java 1.5.0_06.

Guys,

While I was substituting strings in all my Java files of my project, which is spread over many packages, I noticed after the substitution some files were completely gone. And empty files with names like: #myfilename.java# were created instead. Anyone has a clue about what could be happened?

Thanks

I'm compiling Java source files from Ant build scripts using AntFarm. Console doesn't seem to parse javac's output - compile errors are shown in the console but not in the ErrorList.

Using javac directly in the Console works: compile errors correctly appear in the ErrorList.

A bug in one of the plugins? Or something else?

Java 1.6.0-beta2-b86
jEdit 4.3pre4
AntFarm 1.5.3
Console 4.2.6.2

I have:
JEdit 4.2 final
Mac OS Plugin 3.0
JKD 1.5 (current)
OS X 10.4 (current)
Intel MacBook Pro

I ran updates on my plugins and the Mac OS plugin stopped working:

=============== Plugin Error ====================
MacOS.jar:
Cannot start java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.apple.eawt.Application.addApplicationListener(Lcom/apple/eawt/ApplicationListener;)V
Try updating to a newer version of the plugin
===========================================

I don't see a newer version of this plugin listed anywhere and it *was* working before. I don't remember if this was one of the plugins updated when I ran the update.

Can anyone confirm this plugin working on a similar intel Mac setup? Has anyone seen this issue?

Thanks,

--ee

Hello,

I want to find/replace in *.h and *.cpp files.

In the Find dialog's wildcard section I tried a bunch of variations, like

*.h,*.cpp
*.(h|cpp)

no luck - all result in "no files found" (and there are plenty of both).

I'm probably one character away from getting the regex right.

Any tips?
Thanks!

I open a file that resides on a linux machine with jEdit on a windows machine through samba. When i save the file, all goes well, ACCEPT that the group/owner is changed to root.

i tried switching the 'two step save' off, i tried creating a fixes mapping (Z:) to the shared folder. I tried installing version 4.1. Whatever i do, when i save a file, it changes the group/owner.

i am about to give it up.. is it a samba setting? I reccon i have root access through samba or somethin.. any1 1 idea?

Hi,
I am using Jedit with Mandrake 9.0, installed on a specific PC. We use VNC to connect to the Linux account from other Pc's (Windows PC's). Suppose we are 2 clients connecting to the same linux account (same login), but working on different KDE desktops (possible with VNC). Then, the first client runs Jedit --> it works fine. But the second client cannot open the Jedit window on its own PC. Instead, the window is opened on the first client terminal...
Is there some parameter to set or configuration that could help ??
Thanks

After serious problems with 4.3pre2 (keyboard froze all the time), I upgraded my openSuSE 10.1 notebook to pre4. The keyboard doesn't seem to freeze anymore, but now the text area content has become invisible. I tried to change all sorts of Global options, but to no avail.

This repeatedly occurs in the activity log:

[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0"
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.gjt.sp.jedit.buffer.FoldHandler.getFoldLevel(Lorg/gjt/sp/jedit/buffer/JEditBuffer;ILjavax/swing/text/Segment;)I
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at org.gjt.sp.jedit.buffer.JEditBuffer.getFoldLevel(Unknown Source)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at org.gjt.sp.jedit.buffer.JEditBuffer.isFoldStart(Unknown Source)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at org.gjt.sp.jedit.textarea.Gutter.paintLine(Unknown Source)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at org.gjt.sp.jedit.textarea.Gutter.paintComponent(Unknown Source)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:1003)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at javax.swing.JComponent.paintWithOffscreenBuffer(JComponent.java:4930)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at javax.swing.JComponent.paintDoubleBuffered(JComponent.java:4883)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at javax.swing.JComponent._paintImmediately(JComponent.java:4826)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at javax.swing.JComponent.paintImmediately(JComponent.java:4633)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at javax.swing.RepaintManager.paintDirtyRegions(RepaintManager.java:451)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at javax.swing.SystemEventQueueUtilities$ComponentWorkRequest.run(SystemEventQueueUtilities.java:114)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:461)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:163)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:157)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:149)
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)

Any advice?

(And: would it be possible to increase the width of the forum dropdown list on the submission page? On Linux Firefox 1.5.0.1, I can see only the introducing dash and the first two letters of a forum's name, which makes forum selection pure guesswork.)

Thanks in advance,