I've been using jEdit for a few years now, and I still consider it the most versatile editor I've ever used. Unfortunately, while I don't have any problem with it's somewhat massive footprint on my desktop, I've recently run into issues using it as an editor in remote sessions. Even without any additional plugins it takes around ten seconds to load jEdit on an SSH session with X11 tunnelling on a 100Mbit network. While this is perfectly OK if I've got a lot of editing to do, it makes it very painful to use as a general purpose text editor for smaller jobs. At the moment, I use nedit, which loads faster, but doesn't have nice features like multiple line editing with rectangular selection, or jEdits far superior find/replace.

Is there any way I can significantly lighten jEdit so that I can use it as a replacement to nedit? Or if that's too much like trying to fit a war elephant in a dog kenel, then can anybody recommend a good companion editor to jEdit? A lighter editor built with jEdit Syntax Package for instance?

Is it possible ?
More than ever I need to assign a hotkey (like Alt-r or Crtl-R or 2 close keys)
so can just press it to refresh the view of Jdiff just after I finish editing
a line. This a thing I do 100 % of the time. If it could be set to automatically
refresh wow !
Anyway, I'll be very happy with CTRL-something or Alt-Something

Thanks

Hi all -

I'm a jedit newbie, and I've looked through the FAQ, as well as the wiki but couldn't find a simple answer to this question: "How can I use Anti-Alias fonts in jedit on Linux?"

It strikes me that jedit is a wonderful tool, but I can't see past the pervasively horrible font rendering. Program menus, dialog boxes, and of course the main edit window - the horrible java font rendering looks very much out of place on my KDE 3.4 desktop. In Utilities->Global Options->Text Area I have selected "Smooth Text" as well as "Fractional font metrics", which is a tremendous improvement, but the fonts still don't seem as good as in any KDE app. If I run 'kate' next to 'jedit' both using 'Monospaced', the rendering in 'kate' is much better.

I am using jedit4.2final on gentoo-64, with blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01 as the java back-end.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

One feature in Notepad++ I really liked that I can't figure out how to duplicate in JEdit was the ability to set the font of certain syntatically-highlighted elements to a different font face than the default for the document.

For instance: variable-width font for literals, monospaced for operators and functions, maybe a serif font for comments and so on.

With the new indent engine can JEdit support the coding style where the '{}' line up with the body rather then the if/do/for/while ??

i.e.
if( x==1 )
{
// Body
}

With the new indent engine can JEdit support the coding style where the '{}' line up with the body rather then the if/do/for/while ??

i.e.
if( x=1 )
{
// Body
}

When writing Java code I like to use the following style

for(int i = 0; i < x; i++)
{
     //code here
}

But JEdit always trys to interpret my layout differently

for(int i = 0; i < x; i++)
     //It automatically tabs to this point before I have put in the opening brace.

This means I'm constantly pressing the back space button to put my braces where I want them. I've looked everywhere for some way to control this interpretation but there doesn't seem to be a control panel for it.
¿Has anyone got ony suggestions?

When writing Java code I like to use the following style

for(int i = 0; i < x; i++)
{
//code here
}

But JEdit always trys to interpret my layout differently

for(int i = 0; i < x; i++)
//It automatically tabs to this point before I have put in the opening brace.

This means I'm constantly pressing the back space button to put my braces where I want them. I've looked everywhere for some way to control this interpretation but there doesn't seem to be a control panel for it.
¿Has anyone got ony suggestions?

I'm a long time user of jEdit, but just found out about the code browser plugin. I'm running OS/X v.10.3.8, and installed exuberant ctags (version 5.5.4) through darwinports. Ctags seems to run perfectly from the command line, but it just doesn't work inside of jEdit. I've got the correct path in the plugin settings. I've tried different kinds of files, some C, some tcl, html, java, and PHP, so I'm fairly sure it's not a language-support or file extension issue.

I noticed some odd behavior, as well. I've got the Code Browser docked on the right. When I first open jEdit, there are some entries in the code tree that are completely out of the blue (I expanded them so you could see):



If anyone could help me out with this, I would appreciate it greatly. Thanks

Is jEdit (or a plugin) able to perform HTML source code formatting, like for example Dreamweaver does? I got many files with messy html code and I was wondering if I could do this with jEdit.

Thanks...

I was going to download the JCompiler and Console plug-ins so I don't have to open a command line to compile and run my program. But during the download I got I/O error and I don't know why. I'm assuming the download failed. How can I tell if I have these plug-ins installed?

Hi,

I've just started using JEdit - excellent product!

Is there any way to make the "Search and Replace" dialog dockable? It would definitely making editing multiple buffers easier.

Thx,

Frank.

I'm certain I had this problem fixed once, but I can't find whatever documentation I used. I've just come back to JEdit from Netbeans, so I can't quite recall what changes I made. I'm using JEdit 4.2Final.

If I'm typing a Java file, and I enter a Javadoc, followed by a class or method declaration, when I press <enter> on the line, it indents to the * on the javadoc. Example:

I type:

/**
 * javadoc comment
 */
public class MyClass {

Jedit automatically indents to:

/**
 * javadoc comment
 */
 public class MyClass {

inserting the space at the beginning of the line. I don't want this to happen. Can anybody tell me what I need to do to fix it; I suspect I'll have to edit the java mode file, but I'm not overly familiar with the syntax. I looked at the java mode, but nothing popped out to solve this issue.

Thanks,
Dusty

PS: My login seems to be broken here, I'm 'Sawdusty', but I can't log in and the request password form isn't sending me one.

I downloaded JBuilder but it looks pretty complicated for me and I may have to switch to something simpler. I might download a text editor like jEdit and then install that along with Java 1.4. Is that all I need to do then to start writing programs? When I install jEdit will it automatically link itself to Java 1.4 or do I have to go through some manual configuration process to link the two together?

And what is a plug-in? Do I need to install any plug-ins? Or can I use jEdit just the way it comes in the download?

Hi there,

I have been watching this community for a few days and looks like no serious communication takes place. I as a lot of other people am looking for sharing knowledge and information on using jEdit.

Is there any other place out there where this is done ?

regards

I wonder if there is a way to save HyperSearch results in a separate file.

If you find the icon for the move / drop operation gets in the way and obscures where you want to drop selection try this solution:
This is using j2re1.4.2_06 - the problem may not exist in other versions
Find file "motif_MoveDrop32x32.gif"
in
/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06/lib/images/cursors/motif_MoveDrop32x32.gif
or wherever your jre folder is
Open in gimp (may have to change read/write permission)
Select white area - leave just little bit of white around edge
Make it transparent
Save.

This will, I expect change icon, in all java apps.
You could also try editing "cursors.properties"
I'm sure there might be better wys but this seems to work!

Is there a way to not display the "." period at the end of each line. I find it very hard to edit anything with jedit because the language I use already uses periods at the end of line. Having to periods at the end kind of throws me off. Any help appreciated.
Thanks.

Hi, I know there is a way for Jedit to outline the matching tag with any color given, but is there a way to have it set a background color for the matching tag instead of just outlining it?

Thanks.

Is there a way to move jedit's profile directory under windows from "C:\Documents and Settings\username\.jedit" to another location ?
Since the profile space is restricted to 20 MB in our network, I've got to (partially) delete it before I can log off.