Hi! I would like a Progress Dialog for operations that take more than a few seconds. Recently I ran a regex replace all on a very big file. After pressing the Replace All I had no way of knowing how mush of the operation was left, no way of cancelling the operation, and no way of knowing if the application has crashed. I would like a progress dialog with a progress bar and an cancel button. This should appear for all operations that take more than a few seconds, examples include search/replace and macros.
Also during the replace operation, when switching to another window and then back to JEdit, the JEdit window became grey and behaved strange. Maybe this could be some problem with repaint being blocked or delayed. Better thread handling maybe?
Thanks for the best text editor!
Spookyy
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I just started playing around with jedit today, and it looks like a great editor. But having come from vi, as I imagine many jedit users have, the keyboard shortcuts, macros, etc have become well-ingrained in my head, and have made me a much faster programmer for it.
I would absolutely love to see a vim plug-in. It looks like somebody started a project called vimulator, but it doesn't appear to work at all, and doesn't appear to be in active development.
Are there any plans for something like this? Anyone willing to pick it up?

Thanks,
Jon

When developing a plugin, it would be great to have the possibility to reload the plugin from the filesystem. I have only been able to remove a plugin and reinstall it from the plugin central.

If this is already possible can someone please tell me how?

I would like a 'count' option in the 'Search and Replace' dialog for counting the number of occurances. Now I have to search and replace the same string. This means the buffer has changed and this is not desirable as there is no 'real' change. Currenlty I'm using jEdit 4.2pre8.

It would be nice if there is a JGoodies or Alloy look and feel available. it looks slick..
For an example app:

http://columba.sourceforge.net/downloads_webstart.php

When loading an XML document the XML plugin should detect, and switch to, the encoding specified in the XML header.

Example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<exampledocument/>

 My default character-encoding is cp1252. If I were to open the example-document I would risk corrupting the document when saving. Instead I wish that the XML plugin should recognize encoding="utf-8" and automatically switch.

Hi,
Thanks for an excellent browser.
Two requests:

1) I have looked around but I can't find any way to attach a keyboard shortcut to the "Directory of current buffer" option that I use all the time. I can't put an icon on the main toolbar (see 2) either.

2) The way I prefer to position is to the left and have it as narrow as possible to free up editing space. Unfortunately, I then have difficulty seeing the toolbar dropdown items.
It would be nice if it was possible to have the file browser toolbar items in on the main toolbar. On my machine, the latter is almost empty since I know most of the commands by heart.

Greetings guys,
I'm looking for a jEdit or like cross plataform editor that work as a java applet. I'm involved on a development project in which we would like to implement a browser-based interface (ide if you like) for coders to work. Sintax highlighting and indentation are the main features we are looking for. Any solutions out there? Any jEdit-based applet?

Hi.

Many times, I have faced this problem when working on several buffers: am I editing the file I think I am editing ? I could realize it with a quick look on the tabs, but I guess we programmers can be quite distracted sometimes, and if I have two PHP sources open at the same time, I would think I am writing on file A while in fact, I am writing file B which should not be touched.

Of course, I could change the file permissions in order to prevent myself from doing something stupid. But not always.

My request is: I would like JEdit to have some mechanism to allow me to prohibit myself to write to a buffer. I would 'Lock' the buffer I do not want to write, and I could work with the two of them open at the same time. JEdit would still allow to select and copy text, but not write to the buffer.

So, what do you guys say ? Have you ever run into this same distraction ? Would this be useful ?

See ya
Leonel

Back/Forward Buttons
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The File System Browser includes reload and to parent buttons to navigate folders, but not back and forward buttons. Such buttons would allow for easy use of previously accessed folders, for opening buffers related to current tasks.

Moreover, Back and Forward buttons on similar applications for fily system browsing are prevasive in file management software and with Web browsers.

Customize File System Browser Toolbar
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With the addition of such buttons, ideally, Options:File System Browser:General, would also include the specification of the type and order of buttons to display in the toolbar for the file system browser. For instance, maybe a user would like to have the back/forward buttons displayed before the Parent Directory button, or after the Reload Directory button, or not at all.

To start, I'll say that I am very impressed with Jedit. Thank you for all the hard work from the programmers associated. A small request I'd like to make. For a long time I used UltraEdit by IDM and it was and still is a fine product. It had a feature that embedded programmers like myself use that allowed me to define menu options that would run console commands without having to pull up the console.

Is there a plugin for something like this now?

Hi community,
I've download the jEdit icon pack from jedit.org. My problem is now, that I can't find any information about how to install this pack !?
Furthermore I've download some icons from Phoenity for the toolbar. How can I integrate this in JEdit ? Ok to add the icons one by one manual above the Options-Menu it's no problem, but how can I add the whole icons, e.g. over a properties file ?

Thanks a lot for helping answers.
incs

I think downloads should contain documentation, I've just downloaded the XP icons download and have no idea what to do with them, no readme or anything. The mangled tooltip on the site says something about JAVA_HOME which I'm not sure what this is and "jre\lib\ext" which as far as I can see this subtree doesn't exist.

My 2 cents worth,
Dennis

1. As far as I can see JEDIT had no eclipse plugin capability (eclipse.org), is this planned?

2. I would like JEDIT to support projects. The plugin is a bit ordinary. What would be enough for me is to be able to be able to have main jedit settings in one file which I can ask JEDIT to use from the command line, I would want this to contain the state info, files loaded etc. I can then write a simple batch file which looks for this file in the current directory or use central one if none found.
I would then be able to do what I've been able to do for years and that is start my editor in any projects directory and continue working EXACTLY like I left it, even if this was a year ago...

Bye,
Dennis

Do anyone has interest to port jext to work in P900 mobile phone? is it possible to do that?
thanks
yan

The Zend Development Environment has a really cool feature they call "File Inspector". It parses PHP files and lists in a side bar all the functions, classes, variables, and constants and links them to the location of their declaration in the file they're in. That's WAY cool. Features are explained at http://www.zend.com/store/products/studio-editing-features.php.

Hello jedit-community,
I hope I'm not annoying with a question that has been asked a thousend times already - I'm looking for a word processor for an open-source java project ( it's going to teach chemistry at schools). I've lerand tha jedit is _not_ a word processor, but a text editor - but are there any developents to make it becoming something like a word processor, or it there any other java-program that can be use?
Google didn't help.
Thanks for your help
Philipp

Is there a way to make the graphical items a smaller size? One specific example is the HyperSearch Results. When I dock the results at the bottom of the view, the top edge of the results has an icon for "Remove All Nodes" and "Toggle Multiple Results". While these are occasionally useful, I would much rather have the space they use for a larger text area. The icons cause the border between the results and the edit area to be twice the size it needs to be.

When you press enter the new line will be auto indented to the first previous indented line. I would like to change this so the new line would not be indented if the previous line where not in dented. (The behaviour is somewhat different with text, but I think you get the idea.) Example: If I got this: And press return the next line will be indented, like this: I wouldn't it like this: Hope I got my point through! Thanks!

The most common reason for me to not use JEdit when I actually would like to use it is when writing plain human text, like this. When it comes to spell checking I almost always use MS Word. The spell checking features I'm missing are:
(1) Easy switching language. I often write text in both English and my native language and I would like to be able to fast and easy switch the active dictionary with a simple menu. I think this one should be pretty simple to implement!?
(2) I really like the MS Word spell checking when you're writing. Misspelled words are marked with a red underline. If you like to change the word you can do it by the keyboard, or you can right click the word and you get a popup menu with suggestions.
Any chance to get these features implemented in Jazzy (or any other way into JEdit)? This would be one of the most appreciated JEdit feature that I can think of. In my opinion it would greatly improve the hole of JEdit!
(By the way, I had to write this feature request in MS World, not in JEdit .)
I like both JEdit and Jazzy , see you!