I've just started using jEdit in the past couple of weeks. I had been using a combination of SubEthaEdit and Fugu under Mac OS X. When I needed a good, free editor that worked well for editing Python and had code-folding, I tried jEdit. Using the FTP plugin, I've been able to edit files on servers over an SFTP connection.

I've started using more and more plugins with jEdit as I find that they offer good features. One of the disappointing things though is that plugins like XSLT, Project Viewer, QuickNotepad, and others aren't able to work with files through the FTP plugin. I suspect that the reason for this is that these plugins try to open files in the filesystem directly. They don't know how to handle these SFTP URLs.

I wonder if these other plugins would be able to work with files through an SFTP connection if all of their file operations went through the jEdit API. Does jEdit offer functions for working with files? Would that allow working with files via SFTP?

I have learnt from XML plugin page http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?XML that "...the element tree is shown in a dockable window".
But how to see it?
I saw the XML tree in the screenshots but would like to see it in my jEdit buffer too .

How would I use jEdit to run a file I'm working on?

I found the InfoViewer plug-in, which launches web-type files in external browsers. That's good for the web-type files. But what about for other kinds of files?

I am constantly working on AutoHotKey scripts and then wanting to run them to see the changes I've made. Right now, I have to make a change, then flip back to the Windows Explorer file window and double-click the file to run it to see the changes I just made.

I'm sure there's a way to do this in jEdit. I've searched the help and this forum, but found nothing. Thanks for any help.

I am pleased to invite everybody at http://jedit.ru - russian site devoted to jEdit.

Hey Guys,

I'm having some problems getting the JMail plugin to work. I go through and set all my account settings, and get the following error:

Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port 25; nested exception is java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect.

At first I'm thinking that it's something to do with a firewall in the background, so I try changing the port to say, 20 (it's 25 by default). However it still looks like it's trying to connect to "localhost" which doesn't make any sense. My email settings have a different port and host, yet they for some reason aren't being used.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks.

Has anyone done anything in the direction of Brief emulation ?
A plugin or a compete list of keyboard shortcuts ?

Another problem I have is that I cant find the buttons for BACK_QUOTE, OPEN_BRACKET and CLOSE_BRACKET ! I'm using a norwegian keyboard.

Any help would be greatly appreciated !
After a few hours of jEdit experimenting I'm almost sure that this will be my new text editor of choice !

Kjell Eirik

How can I change the color/background of the Filebrowser ?

thanks,

Felix

How can I change the color/background of the Filebrowser ?

thanks,

Felix

Hello!

I searched in the forum and looked through the options of jEdit, but i couldn't find an option in jEdit to select a path where it stores it's [filename]~-tempfiles.
Did i just missed the option or should i post this in the feature-requests forum?

DJ Hix

Whenever I attempt to download a new plugin, jEdit displays the following error message:

an i/o error occurred(no route to host: connect)

Before posting here, I tried to search for similar problems in the forum. The only message I found included a suggestion to configure jEdit to use a proxy, if the user was using a proxy. But I am not, so I am hoping someone has some other advice.

I can see the list of plugins, so it seems to me that I am able to connect to some list on a server somewhere. The progress bar runs to approx 50% and then displays the error message.

Thanks in advance.

Is there a way to make jEdit stop on underscores (_) when one uses Ctrl-Arrow (left or right)?

I've been using Arachnophilia for years as my primary IDE for web development. I love the way it's toolbars, macros, and menus are totally configurable.

However, I'm developing a tag/function completion tool that will work in any text editor, so I don't need my custom-built Arachnophilia menus and toolbars as much any more. And I'm wondering if there's another editor out there that will serve me better.

Is there any kind of site upload tool/plugin for jEdit? Something that will detect all changed files in a directory structure and upload them to the correct location on the site.

How do I delete the leftmost column, 1 character wide, from selected lines? I often need to strip ">" quote marks from messages forwarded to me. In bbedit, I use "decrease quote level". Thanks.

Holding down shift to scroll a page isn't intuitive when no other app does it. Is there any way to either force jEdit to scroll a page by default, or reverse the modifier -- i.e. to hold down shift for a three-line scroll, whilst making jEdit respect the default.

Scrolling works fine in all other windows in jEdit, it's just the editor one that's causing a problem.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions, even if it's only "look in the source code and switch these lines around". It's equally likely I've missed something really obvious in an options window or not found a config file.

Regards,
Stu.

Alright, I've searched the forums and this question has been asked before, but the answerd givin did not help me.

I can compile a Java program with ANT Farm, but I can not run the program. This is just one single java file that I am trying to run. I've tried hitting the running man icon, but it gave me an error even though I had no bugs when I compiled the file.

Please help

PS I would really enjoy if someone put all the steps needed to run a program starting right after writing a program.

I just instealled the latest antelope plug in from http://antelope.tigris.org/.

I got warning like
"Error starting Antelope:
org.apache.tools.ant.helper.AntXMLContext.setCurrectTargets(Ljava/util/Map;)V
Usually this can be fixed by reatring jedit."

However, when I restarted my jedit, this warning was coming up again.

Any idea?

Whenever I try to load JavaDebugger (v1.4) it keeps on coming up with an error saying that I need to install JDK 1.3 or later but I have JDK 1.5 on my computer and I thought I had set the JavaDebugger up correctly so does anyone have any idea what might be going wrong? I have tried deleting and reinstalling both the Javacore and JavaDebugger plugins with no success.
Thanks

Steve

Hello,

is there a way to start Macros like "Abbreviations", I mean by typing a keyword and when pressing the Spacebar, the Macro will be executed?

What I would like to do is to type a keyword, pressing Spacebar, and something more complex textprocessing than what actually can be done with the Abbreviations is executed.

Maybe, the "templates"-plugin could do it, but when typing a normal word, which does _not_ represent a keyword, always a "warning"-message is launched.

Or, will something like this be available in the next jEdit Version? (I'm using 4.2final now.)


Axel
(Email: forum.jedit3.a99@dfgh.net)

Hello,


I'm looking for add-ons for jedit, which help creating/editing HTML-Files with jEdit; for example: "Abbreviations"-File, Macros or Plugins.

I know of the plugins from http://plugins.jedit.org/list.php?category=4 , but what I'm looking for are more "fundamental"/simple things.

Does anybody know something like this?

Axel
(Email: forum.jedit2.a99@dfgh.net)

Hello,

I'm searching for a plugin(?), that makes something like tree in HTML file (it links <div>s, so it's impossible to forget to close it. I'm sure that it exist (i've seen it on some screenshot), but I don't know name of the plugin (or maybe it isn't plugin at all) ...
Does anybody know?

thanks