The sites I'm connecting to remotely have a pretty long authentication time for some reason. This makes it such that re-connecting after a connection has timed out painful. I've looked and there doesn't seem to currently be a way to do this but it'd be nice if you could manually set the timeout value and possibly set it to never.

It'd also be nice for a "keep connection alive" feature for servers that have a timeout built-in.

Hello,

I was wondering if it would be possible to automatically hide docked views when they no longer have focus. I remember there used to be a plugin for that functionality quite a while ago, but it's no longer compatible with the latest version of jEdit. I also think better "intellisense" and code completion would be a major plus. A lot of times I have to keep switching between jEdit and the Java API docs because I can't remember exactly how a certain method is spelled. It would be much easier if I could see a list of methods pop up as soon as I type '.'

Dave

I wish I could chose the color of the caret and the color of the char inside the caret. So a block caret would be a real block, as it is in vim or even in konsole. The block caret should be a solid color, say black, when on empty char, and when on a char, the char is displayed against the block caret's color, like white on a black caret for example.

I see that the commands C-" and C-/ scrolls line but keeps the current line the same, so it disappears off screen if you scroll up down too far, and then if you use UP Down or similar navigation commands the screen jumps back to the current line.

I want a scroll line that keeps the current line at the same position on the screen, meaning if I scoll one line up, the current line also move one line up. Just like C-Up is done in NP++ and Cream.

I would love to see some File Brower enhancements, namely:
- multitabs for directories. I'm constantly switching directories. Of course this can be done with favorites but it would be handier to have those directories in different tabs (as TotalCommander does)

In addition it would be nice if there would be an option to automatically switch to directory of current buffer.

- Favorites should by renamable. Showing the tree as name is counterproductive if your tree has more than 5 nodes (in mine there are often more then 20). Why not give it an userdefined alias?

What do you think?

Great work so far!

Just my two cents/wishes
Regards
uhuebner

Would anyone be interested in adding a feature to the diff functionality of the SVN Plug-in?

When I'm in the SVN Browser, and I right click a file and select diff, it would be great if the "Revision" option, allowed us to select from the available revisions. I picture something like a "..." button, that when clicked, opens a small window showing the available revision numbers, and the comment created for each revision, and allows you to select one of the revisions to diff with. The comment is actually more important to me than the revision number since we use our own internal versioning scheme, and we use the comment field to hold our internal revision numbers.

Any thoughts, or volunteers?

Thanks
J.R.

It would be really handy for the Find dialog to be dockable - I find it really handy to leave the dialog open while stepping through search results but at work I'm often stuck with limited screen real estate so the dialog obscures the text area.

Does anyone have or is anyone working on plugin for formatting JSON data similar to the XML Indenter plugin? With JSON becoming a popular protocal for those developing rich web applications it would be real useful to be able to take a long JSON string intended for computer processing and format it in a way a human could read it.

Thanks,
Jim

Hi, I'm programming in Java and I really love the highlighting of Java. However, in Java 5 a new feature has been added to the language: generics. For those who don't know (from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/generics.html): Generics provides a way for you to communicate the type of a collection to the compiler, so that it can be checked. Once the compiler knows the element type of the collection, the compiler can check that you have used the collection consistently and can insert the correct casts on values being taken out of the collection. This is placed between '<' and '>'. It would be nice if the generics would be highlighted. As I'm not an expert, I did not succeed in correctly editting the current highlight specification of Java in jEdit; if I do, expression with a '<' inside will start hightling the remaining part.

I like what I see so far with jEdit, even though I've only had it on my system for less than 72 hrs.
I thought the TextTools plug-in would include such things as ROT13, Reverse, Flip, Shuffle Characters, etc, which are the little "toys" I remember fondly from BBEdit in my Mac days (incidentally those stretched from June of last year to the spring of 1993), and are also part of the Format menu in a similar product to this in Windows called EDXOR. I suppose these encryptions are old-hat, but from time to time I find one or two of them useful, and would like to see them added to jEdit.

BZT

Hi All!

Just - so far I think - a useful feature request;Make SOME [selectable] buffers/file always opened at start. This should be independent from session and project [were in the latter, I can just currently have only one open at a time]. May be tell it "always open" and open the files/buffers with one click [I have too many "favorites" to deal with ]. The better option would be to change "project" to have many open at a time.

Best regards,
--mabra

hi all, does anybody know a way to achieve this funtionality ? :: selecting a string and then pressing "find next" (mine is F3) could directly be done without the popup search window. This handy fast functionality is found in the TextPad editor (only Windows).

I search some files backward by default. It would be nice to have the equivalent to the :folding command that you can insert into a buffer to persist folding options. Something like :search=backward to default the search direction in this buffer to backward. Perhaps other users have other search options that they are constantly setting for certain files that a mechanism like this could persist as well.

Hi all.

I'm a recent jEdit convert from Notepad++. My primary motivation for converting was for a consistent experience across platforms (namely Linux vs. Windows), but I'm very impressed with jEdit all-round.

The only feature I'm missing is being able to select text blocks from the Gutter. I understand that this cannot be implemented with left-click because it would interfere with code-folding which I totally understand. After some experimentation I found that selecting from the gutter works with right-click. Unfortunately, it also triggers the standard context menu.

My request is, would it be possibly to have right-click on the gutter not display the context menu to make it possible to select text blocks from the gutter. I would very much appreciate consideration of this new feature.

Thank you, Ehtyar.

Hi !
Firstly I would like to thank you for your contribution of the open source world !

So, I think that a transparent background should be really welcomed !
i.e. if you use a transparent cube in compiz, it's really comfortable to see a bit the windows of the others workspaces behind your code, you can see if you have mail in your browser, if someone is speaking to you on pidgin or if your compilation in another terminal is finished... and you code in the same time.
Actually, I'm using... vim ! (in a transparent terminal) just because of that reason !

And another thing/problem :
You can configure the colors of the text, background, selected line, etc.
But if you choose a black (or dark) bg color, and sure a white text color, there's a problem in perl language :
some characters still black !
i.e. the { } of a if... so it's black on black...
is there a solution ?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help !

If there are plugins for beautify Java, C or Xml, why not for ActionScript? Its a widely used language.

Hi,

I am looking for some editor which would allow simultaneous access from several computers, ie. others would see what one does in his client.

I've noticed that JEdit has client/server architecture and communicates over TCP/IP, so, is it capable of connecting remotely?

Thanks, Ondra

It would be handy to have a plugin that adds a non-numbered marker to any modified line.

The editor we previously used marked modified lines, and we would jump through the modifications using a keystroke. The jumping and removing of the markers on save I can handle in a macro. But the part I cant figure out is adding the marker automatically.

I tried to use the jEdit SVN plugin for a repository that references several external repositories. Seems that this feature is not supported, as the external directories are not populated in the repository browser. I would love to see the jEdit plugin support this type of SVN use in the future.

I downloaded the SideKick plugins for Java, and one of the features it has is a code-completion box for when you type in the name of a class or variable followed by a period. It's handy, and it shows all the method names for that object, but is there a way to get it to also show what parameters those methods need? It would be nice to not have to open up a separate page to look up how many parameters and of what type a certain method needs.