I'm really confused. I downloaded jEdit on my laptop and on my desktop. As far as I can tell they are exactly the same.

However, my laptop styles variable type declarations (for example, putting (int) before a variable, the "(int)" would be in bold) and user-defined PHP constants in bold (that is, any text that appears on it's own would be bold if it were inside PHP tags) and my desktop does not.

I've searched the forums and the internet for hours trying to come up with a solution, and there doesn't seem to be anything that discusses these differences at all. I don't have access to my laptop right now and thus can't copy over the xml file to my desktop.

Would anybody be willing to tell me how to fix this? I've tried messing around with the xml file myself but can't get remotely close. Every solution I've attempted either affects everything but user-defined constants, or user-defined constants and just about everything else written in a PHP file. I thought throwing a new formatting near the button of an existing rule set (since I seem totally unable to make my own) would make it the last operation performed, but I was wrong. My rule seems to be the first thing to happen no matter where it's placed in the xml file.

Hello:

It will help to legibility (clean code) to have a macro or plug in, that folded (or hided) the comments.

It is good to have an inline documentation, but sometimes it grows too much that hides the code.

I've tried to use SearchAndReplace, Fold and other commands but I don't know how to get the line where a comment begins (e.g. # for Python, ' for Visual Basic, // for Java)

Thanks and regards, caracho

hello,

i was wondering if there is a more recent version of the syntax highlighting package here: http://syntax.jedit.org/

i'd like to create a texteditor in my java program that highlights some keywords and provides line numbers. does anyone know of a library that can accomplish that? thanks!

I wanted to try the abbreviation feature. It seems really useful, but I have some suggestion for improvement:

1) Allow users to chose the sets they want
For instance, I want only HTML set to be enabled, not all of them.
How to implement it:
- The current checkbox ("Space bar expands abbrevs") should enable/disable all abbrev sets
- There should be another checkbox ("Enable this abbrev set") below the "Abbrev set" dropdown list. This one should enable/disable the current abbrev set
- There should also be another checkbox for "select/deselect all" abbrev sets (for resetting everything)

2) Allow users to choose the key for expanding abbrevs
Users should be allowed to choose if the abbrevs should be expanded by space, or some other key combination (e.g. "c-enter")

3) Create a shortcut for toggling abbreviation functionality
For instance, I would like to switch abbreviations on and off without going to main menu

What do you think?
Is this possible?

Hello All!

JEdit is a powerful tool to support the development of source code and applications. the rise the usability is it possible to increase the accessibility for handicaped developer. Screen Reader like VoiceOver (Mac OS X) or JAWS (Windows) transform screen content into speech or brailie.

User of JEdit e.g. can not listen to their text while tipping or moving the cursor through the text.

Yours
Frank Marrenbach

The Ruby plugin is great, but it contains a lot of features that change how normal data entry into a jEdit buffer works, and not all of these can be turned off.

In particular, I really, really want to turn off the auto-complete for ", (, /, etc. I know a lot of people like this feature, so I understand why it's turned on as default, but why is there no option to disable it? (other than uninstalling RubyPlugin, which I have now done)

Personally, the main reason I like jEdit is because it DOESN'T try to be helpful like this unless I tell it to - if I wanted TextMate or Aptana, I'd get it, thanks. I love the RubyPlugin API browser and error detection, and I'd really like to be able to use these features without the plug-in changing my favourite thing about jEdit.

Please, keep the feature, maybe even keep it as activated by default, but please let me disable it if I want to. It seems like exactly the sort of thing that should have a toggle-on, toggle-off feature.

Thanks!

(p.s. if anyone knows any hacks I could use now to cut it out myself I'd be really grateful, thanks)

Hello,

I would like to use source files JEDIT and use buffertext and another things, why you don't add a class user interface empty for user who want to add sources for him ?

Thanks

Greg

jEdit does not distinguish between the two plus signs on a keyboard.

When I set a shortcut from Utilities> Global Options> Shortcuts, jEdit doesn't want to distinguish between the two plus signs on a keyboard. It sees typing plus sign ("+") using the number pad and a plus sign typing shift with the equals sign ("=") as typing the same key.

This also holds true for the left/right ALT key, left/right CTRL key and the left/right WIN key.

jEdit needs to distinguish between the keys so I can set a shortcut using the number pad plus sign while also leaving the plus sign (next to the backspace on the keyboard) not set to a shortcut.

AutoIt (Windows automation language) distinguishes between the following keys when setting a hotkey or sending text (using HotKeySet() and Send(), respectively):

Plus ("+") keys: {+}, {NUMPADADD}
ALT keys: {LALT}, {RALT}
CTRL keys: {LCTRL}, {RCTRL}
WIN keys: {LWIN}, {RWIN}

Here are the Send Commands and the Resulting Keypress
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/Send.htm


Example using AutoItScript:

HotKeySet('{+}', 'ShowMessageOne')
HotKeySet('{NUMPADADD}', 'ShowMessageTwo')

Func ShowMessageOne()
MsgBox(4096,'','You pressed the plus sign next using SHIFT + PLUS SIGN!')
EndFunc
Func ShowMessageTwo()
MsgBox(4096,'','You pressed the plus sign next using the number pad!')
EndFunc
While 1
Sleep(10)
WEnd

^In the above AutoItScript script, it differentiates between the two plus sign keys.

thanks

i am looking for a "toggle fold" shortcut setting--a shortcut to do the same thing as clicking the fold markers in the margin (left of the line numbers).

http://community.jedit.org/?q=node/view/3446

thanks

Heyy..
I'm sure that ExtJS support would be great plugin...
I'll wait for the response

Hallo!
I am not a programmer but a writer, who writes in English and translates into German.
I am preparing a piece of documentation describing the use of jEdit as a carrier for a translation tool.
Initially it will be from an English source into German as a single target.
French, Italian and Spanish should be added as future target languages.
The jEdit editor has, I feel certainly the functionality, with its set of plugins to make a very useful translation base.
To whom can I address this request and introduce the dialog?
To whom can I send the document when it is ready?
An inital version, as a simple text document, will be ready by mid next week.
A version, as a HTML document, will be ready at worst two weeks later.
I could provide the necessary user and marketing documentation.
I hope that there is interest in such a project.
Regards, forkinpm.

I use JEdit to write HTML pages containing Japanese. Unicode support is fine and all, but...
If I type in MS Word or Open Office using a Font which doesn't support Japanese characters, the application chooses another font in order to show them. This is more important as it sounds, because a lot of fonts containing Japanese look good when using Japanese, but you get eye cancer when using the Latin character set, and worse, their Latin subset is not monospaced (at least I found no such font for free).
So I'd suggest that you can define a font which will substitute all character the normal font can't display.

Cheers,
Landei

Hello,

i have been using jEdit for over 8 years, mostly for developing php apps. A useful feature would be the integration of xdebug http://xdebug.org/ in jEdit. Xdebug is widely supported by other IDEs:

* Dev-PHP (IDE: Windows)
* Eclipse plugin, which has been submitted as an enhancement for the PDT (IDE).
* ActiveState's Komodo (IDE: Windows, Linux, Mac; Commercial).
* NetBeans (IDE: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris.
* Notepad++ plugin (IDE: Windows).
* WaterProof's PHPEdit (IDE, from version 2.10: Windows; Commercial).
* Anchor System's Peggy (IDE: Windows, Japanese; Commercial).
* MP Software's phpDesigner (IDE: Windows, Commercial).
* Protoeditor (Editor: Linux).
* tsWebeditor (Editor: Windows).
* Xored's TrueStudio IDE (IDE; Commercial).
* VIM plugin (Tutorial) (Editor Plugin).
* jcx software's VS.Php (MS Visual Studio Plugin; Commercial).
* XDebugClient - Standalone Windows client.

Thank you guys for jEdit!

With regards

ApeHanger

When tracing through code I find it's quite useful to highlight a variable and then execute a key stroke to find the next occurrence of it (i.e. what can set the variable) or a different key stroke to find the previous occurrence of it. It would be particularly useful if when highlighting something, jedit yanked it into an area of memory, such that if you then changed to a different buffer, you'd still be able to execute your key stroke but find the word you'd highlighted in the previous buffer.

Does anyone else think this would be useful? I can nearly achieve this using some macros but I'd like to see this feature as a standard part of jedit.

Is it possible to create a full screen functionality? I mean **real** full screen functionality (not like that Full Screen macro).
My workspace is shrinking, since I use buffer tabs and docked windows, and my notebook's screen is 14" one. So full screen functionality would be very handy for me..

Macros in MacroManager plugin should be sorted alphabetically.
Also browsing/installing by category would be useful.

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takeshin

Code suggestions like in other IDE.

I’d like to have a real code completion like in other IDE’s (like in Netbeans, Eclipse
or Zend Studio).
When I type "function", I’d like to see suggestion: "string function( int foo, sting bar [more…])."
Including previously entered methods, functions from included files.
That’s the only thing jEdit is missing.

Here are some screenshots:
http://www.netbeans.org/images/articles/60/web/gwt/code-completion.png
http://www.projectbritannia.com/wiki/uploads/Tools/skrit_code_completion.jpg
http://static.zend.com/topics/zs_code_completion.gif
http://blogs.sun.com/tor/resource/instance-completion.png


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takeshin

Features needed (for XML plugin for example)
- go to next/prev tag
- go to next HTML attribute
- toggle between attributes (move caret or select next attribute value)

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takeshin

I think it could prove very useful to have a plugin that facilitated the configuration of (in each case) a marco to be automatically executed on (for example) the following state-transitions within a jEdit session.

Buffer focus changing, File opening, File saved, File closed (last associated buffer closing), directory in FileBrowser changing

The plugin's option panel would permit the selection of an installed macro (using a dropdown) for each event type supported.

I'm sure there are many more such events for which a macro invocation would prove useful.

Another enhancement for the plugin would be a public API which permitted other plugins to register their own events (by passing a descriptor string, and then invoking another function when the event is to be actioned).

jEdit is great, but configuration/customization takes a lot of time…

It would be great feature to Import/Export keyboard shortcut list to file.
If a macro is attached to shortcut, macro file should be also exported/imported.

How to write a macro to do that?

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takeshin