After upgrading to jedit 4.3pre17 my preferred programming font ("Profont 12") displays wrongly in the editing window. It is antialiased although I defined not to use this feature in the JEdit Text Settings I found under Global Options. For a Screenshot click the link below:
Jedit Text Settings

The line numbers in the gutter left to the editing area display correctly, although using the same font, as seen in the next screenshot:
JEdit Editor Window

All this worked untill the last version (4.3pre16). I am running MacOS 10.5.8 on a MacBookPro, maybe this has something to do with my OS? Any advice would be very appreciated.

I just updated my Windows XP jEdit from 4.3pre16 to 4.3pre17, and the new version doesn't remember its window size or position. I deleted my settings directory and let jEdit re-create it, but the problem persists. I assume that I've doing something wrong, but what?

Thanks,
Gary.

I've been using jEdit for many years with no problems. I was using 4.3.15, I think, and wanted a plugin that required 4.3.17, so I installed the new version. When it starts, the splash screen gets up to the "run startup scripts" and then stops. I've installed in a new folder with the same result. I don't see any log files in the installation folder - is there anywhere else I can look to find out what is going wrong?

I have XP/sp3, Sun JDK6 default and other Sun JDKs (1.5, etc) installed.

Chris

I just installed jEdit v 4.2 Final on a new machine. I have used jEdit for many years and I always install the ProjectViewer plugin, but it is not available in Plugin Manager for this version when I download the Plugins. I located it on a separate website and downloaded it but am not sure how to install it as I always used the jEdit Plugin manager in the past. I installed other plugins through jEdit's Plugin Manager and the option to have them installed to the jEdit settings directory was selected, but I cannot find the jEdit settings directory in the C:\Program Files\jEdit main directory anywhere. Can someone help me understand how to install ProjectViewer and why it is no longer included in the Plugin available through jEdit's Plugin Manager?

I just upgraded my Macbook (OS/X 10.5.7) to Java 1.5.0_19 and my jEdit launcher stopped working. This happens everytime I update Java or Mac OS/X versions. I can fire off the jar version, but the normal launcher crashes and burns. Of course, with the jar version I lose the Mac specific interface. Ideas?

Hi,

I'm trying to set up code folding using the ConfigurableFoldHandler. I've got it working well folding code between { and } however I would also really like to get it working around comment delineators /* and */ . To do this I have been trying to cobble together a regular expression but without much luck. If anyone has any suggestions of how best to achieve this I would be most grateful.

Thanks,

Matt.

hi, is there any detailed installation instructions page anywhere? somehow the installation doesn't seem to work.
1- does it matter if other java installations are present?
2 - if other java installations are present how to direct jedit to recognise sun's java
3 - how to install java and jedit with synaptic
4 - any tweaking that needs to be done and how exactly can that be done? etc

thanks

JREs 1.5 and 1.6u13 ae installed but the Windows installer cannot find them. Worse, it doesn't allow me to locate them for it, it just quits. Java installer complains about a folder permissions problem but never names to folder so I cannot debug it. Shame, I've used Jedit for years under Win 2000 and Win XP Pro, but this appears to be the end of it.

I've been using jEdit for a long time, and use a lot of plugins. I went to install it at my new job, but some of those plugins aren't listed. For instance, there were several XML ones (for indenting, validating, etc) that I can't find. I even tried looking at a few different mirrors.

Have some plugins been deprecated?

Thanks.

I have a Jedit on a machine with network, and also one on a machine without network. Can I somehow copy my plugins to the machine without network, and make them work there? I have tried copying all the jars from the plugin dir, but I get strange errors like this:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gnu/regexp/REException
at buffertabs.BufferTabs.propertiesChanged(Unknown Source)
at buffertabs.BufferTabs.start(Unknown Source)
at buffertabs.BufferTabsPlugin.addBufferTabsToEditPane(Unknown Source)
at buffertabs.BufferTabsPlugin.toggleBufferTabsForEditPane(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.Reflect.invokeMethod(Reflect.java:134)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.Reflect.invokeStaticMethod(Reflect.java:98)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.Name.invokeMethod(Name.java:871)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.BSHMethodInvocation.eval(BSHMethodInvocation.java:75)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.BSHPrimaryExpression.eval(BSHPrimaryExpression.java:102)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.BSHPrimaryExpression.eval(BSHPrimaryExpression.java:47)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.BSHBlock.evalBlock(BSHBlock.java:130)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.BSHBlock.eval(BSHBlock.java:80)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.BshMethod.invokeImpl(BshMethod.java:362)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.BshMethod.invoke(BshMethod.java:258)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.BshMethod.invoke(BshMethod.java:186)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.BeanShellFacade.runCachedBlock(BeanShellFacade.java:225)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.BeanShell.runCachedBlock(BeanShell.java:441)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.BeanShellAction.invoke(BeanShellAction.java:73)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.gui.InputHandler.invokeAction(InputHandler.java:352)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.jEdit$4.invokeAction(jEdit.java:3083)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.jEdit$4.invokeAction(jEdit.java:3067)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.EditAction$Wrapper.actionPerformed(EditAction.java:220)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: gnu.regexp.REException
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.JARClassLoader.loadFromParent(JARClassLoader.java:469)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.JARClassLoader.loadClass(JARClassLoader.java:86)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
... 54 more

Having used jEdit for years, I wanted to make it available to my students. We use MacOS X and they all have USB drives. jEdit runs fine from the external drive of course, but it saves its settings by default in the user's home folder. My problem was that the Guest account gets purged on logout. I didn't want to create user accounts for every student or set up roaming accounts. I knew that it was possible to specify a custom settings folder with a command line switch but I needed a path relative to the jEdit app. I began with the MacOS X package downloaded from jEdit.org. After poking around in the info.plist (right-click jEdit, select Show Package Contents), I found a key for command-line arguments. I could not successfully feed a relative path. Setting WorkingDirectory to $APP_PACKAGE and adding -Duser.home=../ under VMOptions allows this to work. At this point I could feed an argument for a settings folder that sits alongside the jEdit app. I named my folder jEdit_settings. Here is the relevant section from my Info.plist file WorkingDirectory $APP_PACKAGE VMOptions -Xmx192M -Duser.home=../ Arguments -background -settings=jEdit_settings I've documented this on my website - http://perryjohnson.net/web/portable-jedit.html If there is a better way of doing this, I'd love to hear it. I won't say I've tried every text editor but it seems like I have. jEdit always wins the battle.

I'm on MacOSX 10.5.6 and found the fix for running the latest downloaded release. But... After removing the plugins that would nolonger would load I'm still seeing "10 errors" down in the lower right status bar.. Are these from a plugin that should be removed..??(org.gjt....?) A sampling is as follows: ava.lang.NoSuchFieldError: MODE_CHANGED at de.hunsicker.jalopy.plugin.jedit.JEditPlugin.handleMessage(JEditPlugin.java:293) at org.gjt.sp.jedit.EditBus.send(EditBus.java:148) at org.gjt.sp.jedit.jEdit.commitTemporary(jEdit.java:1631) at org.gjt.sp.jedit.PerspectiveManager$PerspectiveHandler.endElement(PerspectiveManager.java:334) ava.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.gjt.sp.jedit.gui.DockableWindowManager.getTopDockingArea()Lorg/gjt/sp/jedit/gui/PanelWindowContainer; at docker.DockFocusManager.setFocusCycleRoots(DockFocusManager.java:100) at docker.DockFocusManager.handleMessage(DockFocusManager.java:49) at org.gjt.sp.jedit.EditBus.send(EditBus.java:148) at org.gjt.sp.jedit.jEdit.newView(jEdit.java:2300) at org.gjt.sp.jedit.PerspectiveManager$PerspectiveHandler.endElement(PerspectiveManager.java:344) java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.gjt.sp.jedit.textarea.JEditTextArea.getBuffer()Lorg/gjt/sp/jedit/Buffer; at ise.plugin.nav.Navigator.(Navigator.java:50) at ise.plugin.nav.NavigatorPlugin.handleMessage(NavigatorPlugin.java:39) at org.gjt.sp.jedit.EditBus.send(EditBus.java:148) at org.gjt.sp.jedit.jEdit.newView(jEdit.java:2300) at org.gjt.sp.jedit.PerspectiveManager$PerspectiveHandler.endElement(PerspectiveManager.java:344)

hi guys

when i run jedit 4.3pre16 on ubuntu 8.10 linux, i get a warning

Warning: $JAVA_HOME environment variable not set! Consider setting it.
Attempting to locate java...
Found a virtual machine at: /usr/bin/java...

and then jedit loads.

how do i set the $JAVA_HOME environment variable, ie. which file do i edit, and what line of code do i add?

many thanks

Matt

I ran the stable yesterday. Today I tried to install the version jedit4.3pre16install.dmg, which I can't tell if it actually installs or not. I get a drive like looking icon that I can 'eject' but when i run the app, the splash screen flashes for a brief second, and disappears. no error messages. No application.

I have tried removing all vestiges of either application, and followed the instructions on the FAQ.

Thanks for any comments.

--Bruce D. Meyer

hi there!

i've installed jedit on ubuntu from the package manager, but when i try and run it it doesnt work.

when i type:

matthew@mtw:~$ jedit
Warning: $JAVA_HOME environment variable not set! Consider setting it.
Attempting to locate java...
Found a virtual machine at: /usr/bin/java...

the splash screen appears and the program begins to load but stops at "init system properties"

if i run it as jedit -noplugins, it loads as far as "init look and feel"

if i try jedit -nosettings it gets to init GUI

but none get the program to fully load.

java -version gives me
matthew@mtw:~$ java -version
java version "1.5.0"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.3.2

Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

any help on getting it working would be greatly appreciated!

thanks for looking!

Matt

I've just install the new pre16 version of jEdit and it won't launch on Mac OS 10.5.5. I'll go back to using the pre15 version, but it'd be great to get a solution to this - wouldn't be a good look for newcomers to jEdit!

Here's the errors from the Console:

20/11/08 12:29:33 PM [0x0-0x158158].org.gjt.sp.jedit[8250] [JavaAppLauncher Error] CFBundleCopyResourceURL() failed loading MRJApp.properties file
20/11/08 12:29:33 PM [0x0-0x158158].org.gjt.sp.jedit[8250] [JavaAppLauncher Error] CFBundleCopyResourceURL() failed while getting Resource/Java directory
20/11/08 12:29:33 PM [0x0-0x158158].org.gjt.sp.jedit[8250] [LaunchRunner Error] No main class specified
20/11/08 12:29:33 PM [0x0-0x158158].org.gjt.sp.jedit[8250] [JavaAppLauncher Error] CallStaticVoidMethod() threw an exception
20/11/08 12:29:33 PM [0x0-0x158158].org.gjt.sp.jedit[8250] Exception in thread "main"
20/11/08 12:29:33 PM [0x0-0x158158].org.gjt.sp.jedit[8250] java.lang.NullPointerException
20/11/08 12:29:33 PM [0x0-0x158158].org.gjt.sp.jedit[8250] at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.run(LaunchRunner.java:112)
20/11/08 12:29:33 PM [0x0-0x158158].org.gjt.sp.jedit[8250] at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.callMain(LaunchRunner.java:50)
20/11/08 12:29:33 PM [0x0-0x158158].org.gjt.sp.jedit[8250] at apple.launcher.JavaApplicationLauncher.main(JavaApplicationLauncher.java:61)
20/11/08 12:29:33 PM com.apple.launchd[131] ([0x0-0x158158].org.gjt.sp.jedit[8250]) Exited with exit code: 1

How can I do that?

Dear community,
My problem is I can not print from jEdit (stable and dev version) under OpenSuse 11.0. I have tried with jdk6 and jdk7. Under Windows I have no problem.
Someone could help me?
Thank you in advance
F.J. Santa Eugenia

Hello,
I installed the Debian distribution of jEdit on my Asus EEE
with no problems, but I'm wondering if anyone has created an
icon and the commands for installing it in Easy Mode.
Thanks
Moti

I just switched from XP to a Fedora9 desktop and am not sure how to install Jedit. I got the Java version - but not sure where to go from there. The "open jdk runtime environment" is installed (first file = /usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64).

Do I need other packages?
What command starts the installer?
- I did see this page - http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=compatibility - but wanted to ask here before trying commands I don't understand.

thanks