I'd like to be able to assign actions to numeric keypad presses.
This seems to have been asked for a couple of times in the past but the replies don't say whether it is possible or not. Is there any chance of it ever being implemented?

Evaluating jEdit as replacement for Textpad 4.7.3 ... this is one feature I can't seem to find on any other editor (Even the latest TextPad 5). I see jEdit has the split feature, I see the bufferlist plugin, but the two are not integrated.

Hello,

I just noticed that my proxy settings password (which I do not want to expose to anyone) goes directly to .jedit/properties files with no encryption which, i believe, could be unsafe. Is it possible to add a simple encryption and instead of putting it explicitly into the preference file just encode it with some hashing function.

Thanks,
Nik

Would it be possible to send and receive custom AppleEvents using JEdit? For example, I would like to highlight some text in a JEdit window and then press either the key or the keys and have that chunk of text sent to my programming environment. My programming environment would take that text and execute it as if it were copy/pasted into its console window. There are other custom behaviors I would like, such as sending an AppleEvent to JEdit to open a specified file and scroll to a specific line number or character number. Also, I would like to have JEdit be able to do a "Save and Include" operation from a JEdit window: so I could edit a specific file and then press -K and the file would be saved and then compiled by my programming environment. I would also want the ability to send chunks of text (of any size) to be displayed in the currently open JEdit file/window at the current cursor location. I realize this may be asking a lot. For a demo of exactly what I am talking about you could download the PowerMops IDE and see how its QuickEdit integrated editor (but it is a separate application) does all of the above and more. http://sourceforge.net/projects/powermops/files/PowerMops/ (download PowerMops v6.2 , it includes QuickEdit double-click the "Open Me First" file in the PowerMops folder and everything will be launched and you can immediately see how what I describe above works ) The reason I ask these questions is QuickEdit does not work in Intel native mode. Regards, Douglas B. Hoffman

JCompile for version 4.4.x!!!!

I love JEdit so far but it is quite frustrating to have to use Terminal to compile my programs! I don't know anything about creating plugins or I would help but it would be really nice to see the JCompile plugin updated!!

hello. Having seen webdav read/write/browser support there for years. The original plugin for webdav was written about a decade ago and taken down many years ago.

I am a user and I cannot program (yes I know jEdit's tagline is "programmer's editor but I somehow ended up using jedit for editing my non-program-source-code files) but if a programmer have time and come by you can consider adding this feature:)

If you consider putting support of webdav into jedit, perhaps you can also consider being compatible with gnome's URI convention. Right click in gnome and choose open a webdav file in gnome results this command being called:

jedit dav://username@server.domain.name

I don't see it important to support gnome-vfs but supporting the same URI convention would help a lot already.

Thank you very much guys. I have been using jedit for the last two months and I am amazed by it's abilities. I see the
Need fir just one capability and that is embedded terminal like emacs and geany. If we can have this it will be a great addon.

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Shafqat

Several of my favorites are more then 10 directories deep. Beside the bad readability it almost won't fit on my screen. It would be great if I could give alias names to my favorites.

Does that imply major changes or can it be done with relatively small effort?

To me jEdit as an editor is nearly feature complete. Now the focus should by layed on usability. I find the file browser the weak point. IMHO it needs an major overhaul.

Kind regards
uhuebner

Hi all,

A very nice feature I'm looking for is to change the color of code according to the #if/#ifdef preprocessor directives.
For instance, having the "toto = 1" code in the following code displayed in a special color to indicate it is not compiled:
#if 0
toto = 1;
#endif
I've not managed to find if this feature already exist (using the ctags stuff plugin or so) but this would be a great great feature!

Any advice welcome, regards,
Sebastien.

Hello. This feature request is best explained by example. I have a text file, see below:

    THE PROJECT                                   THE FOUNDATION

In the begining                         An independent non-profit .......
  The project .... [terse edited text   ........ and we .........
  with /emphasizes/ and references
  to wikipedia.]

Now                                     MEMBERSHIP
  .......... [edited text to mention      The membership ..... [terse edited
  reports]                                text about membership]
     Report 1...                              Membership 1
     Report 2...                              Membership 2
     Report 3...                              Membership 3
                                              Membership 4
WE BELIEVE IN                                 Membership 5
  Freedom and community
    [Even terser edited text with       FINANCE
     references to the GNU project.]      [a short explanation how GNOME
  Collaboration and meritocracy           foundation is financed and list of
    [terse edited text that emphasises    financial reports.]
    digits, numeric facts and links to
    get-involved section]               LEGAL Information
  People-centered                         [A list of references to legal
    [Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,          documents.]
    consectetur adipisicing elit] 

You can see the text file is formatted using spaces. Only in "overtype mode" can such a text file be edited, but even though it's not convenient. Suppose I want to remove "Membership 5" and let every other line in the right column move upward one line, it must be hell of trouble to do it. A easy way is to add a feature to select a rectangle in the text file, and the editing area is in the rectangle. If I select the whole right column in a rectangle, then, editing only affects characters in that area. Removing a line, for example, makes every below other line lifts up in the rectangle, but outside does not move. Perhaps this feature isn't used much, but having this feature created a new way of doing text editing, people may find interesting ways to use text editor as a mind-map, an organizational-chart editor and a web layout editor without having to use a graphical tool, and being able to send charts through emails. This may be further enhanced with the use of box-drawing characters. Any thoughts?

It would be nice to be able to add more wrap margin lines. For instance:
In my coding we use 80 columns in our input decks, but there can be up to 96 columns, but within the fortran coding we only us 72 columns.

Hey,
vi being old and daunting at first is cool and much faster than any other editor. But who wants to go to console these days when big programming tools are available.
Searching for a word is one of the most frequent things i do. Specially to track the use of variables. Vi makes it easier than any other editor.

Rather than a big daunting window to FIND one word it is more friendly to pop a box in the bottom like in firefox and just give in a command to do a flexible search. And not only search but many many functions if the features from vi are brought into the box. For hard core programmers it will be a boon. Plugin may be a good option for this one.

Thank You

I am frequently working on multiple projects at once and currently the only options for managing those projects' files in jEdit are pretty limited.

Current possibilities:
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1. Have all the buffers open at once

This becomes an unmanageable mess.

2. Have multiple view panes (split vertically/horizontally) and have different buffers open in each

This is messy as I need to remember which view pane has which project (some are similar and not immediately obvious), and constantly move their "walls" to show and hide them.

3. Have different setting folders for each project

This is very inefficient as switching between projects requires restarting jEdit from the command line with the project's settings folder.

SUGGESTION
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Instead, it would be incredibly powerful to have project groups just like Firefox's Panorama (Tab Groups). You can put buffers into a group, name the group and then when you switch to that group, it would minimize the previous group's buffers and open the new group's buffers only.

As well, jEdit would enable ctrl-tab to switch between the project groups. When a user presses ctrl-tab, it would popup a visual list (like alt-tab for windows) over the current buffer with all the Project Groups' names so you could easily switch between groups. (And pressing ctrl-tab again moves to the next group just like alt-tab)

I keep dozens of files open in jEdit. At any given time I'm usually
flipping between a small subset of them. The buffer switcher orders files alphabetically,
so I often have to switch repeatedly between files at the beginning and end of
the buffer switcher list which means scrolling the list if both files are not visible.
ctrl+` is okay for switching between 2 files but I'm usually in a slightly bigger loop.

alt+f alt+f brings up the recent files list. It's order eludes me but it is not ordered by time last edited. I can change the order by reloading files but this is extra key strokes and doesn't keep up
with changing patterns of file use.

Anyone have any other existing solutions? I suspect this could be done in a plugin. Any existing plugins? If not I'll submit a formal feature request.

Hi,

That would be cool for the plugin manager to :

1. select only plugin available for the current version of jEdit
2. disable all plugin that can't work for the current version of jEdit

I remember the customisable fold handler that didn't work from 4.2 to 4.3...

Also, if we could have an update manager ala Firefox Bon Echo (2.0), that would be the best Eye-wink

(Anyway, I don't know if it's the first thing I would do if I were developping for jEdit)


Wholesale fashion

I'm developing an IDE-like application where I would like to use jEdit (or parts of it) as a source code editor.

It's great that the text area is provided as a component that can be used independently of the jEdit application. However, this just provides the text area – I need to provide menus, toolbars, actions, file management (loading/saving/...) externally.

What would be even greater is thus something like a jEdit view, only that it is not a window, but an ordinary component that I can embed my own components.

Is anything like this planned – or already available, and I have overlooked it?

How is the Python mode (python.xml) file maintained? How does one communicate with its maintainer regarding changes?

Yesterday, I suddenly registered how used my -key looks, compared to the rest of my keyboard. I investigated for the reason, and found me pressing -s in jEdit very often to save my modified buffer.

In that moment it struck me that an autosave-feature would be nice, which could be described as following:

The file is saved. You start typing. While you continue to type, your file remains unsaved. As soon as you stop to type, the clock starts ticking for a optional amount of seconds until your buffer gets saved automatically.

With "saved" I mean really saved, like with -s, and not the fallback-file with the filename enclosed in "#"-characters.

Such a feature would save me many keypresses and make it much more comfortable to point my mouse to a terminal and execute the modified program.

- Is such a feature already possible with the build-in macro language, or does someone has to create a plugin to make this wish come true?

It'll be very comfortable if jEdit will warn you before it overwrite an existing file.

With Textmate you can open a file via an URL from a browser, like txmt://open?url=file://%s&line=%s.
This is very useful if you develop with the playframework which shows you errors in the browser.
So you can jump directly to your file and line via the url.