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Problems with jEdit and Swedish chars on Linux
Submitted by Anonymous on Friday, 16 January, 2004 - 15:40
Hallo!

I have installed jEdit on Debian Linux. But when I write swidish special chars the editor display a square insted of the char. How to fix it?
Get environment variable from Windows
Submitted by Anonymous on Friday, 16 January, 2004 - 16:13
I am not a java programmer, so I'm not sure where or how to do it, but is there a way to get an environment variable into a macro variable? I would like to use environment variable %USERPROFILE% so that when I copy my .jedit folder to other computers that I use, all of my macros, and configurations work as they should on the other computers, seamlessly without modification. Example macro:
user = "grymmjack";
quot = "\"";
prog = "hh";
file = "C:\\Documents and Settings\\" + user + "\\.jedit\\reference\\php.chm";
line  = quot + prog + quot + " " + file;
runCommandInConsole(view, "System", line);
  
Bitmap font support
Submitted by Anonymous on Friday, 16 January, 2004 - 16:18
Not sure if this is a java issue or not, but it seems jEdit has no support for bitmap based fonts. It would be nice to have the .FON (under windows) bitmap type fonts supported since there are so many excellent programming fonts of this flavor.
Extending classpath for AntViz
Submitted by Anonymous on Friday, 16 January, 2004 - 18:30
I'm trying to figure out how to add a directory to the classpath that JEdit loads with. Couldn't find it in the help.
In particular, I'm trying to use AntVizPlugin but its failing because it doesn't understand some custom tasks that we've defined. If I can add the directory containing these task implementation classes maybe it would work.

Thanks
Default user name
Submitted by Brad Mace on Friday, 16 January, 2004 - 19:45
Should get default user name from system
Trouble installing on Windows
Submitted by Anonymous on Saturday, 17 January, 2004 - 03:30
Hi,
Having heard only good things about this editor, I've decided to try it out for myself.
Unfortunately, nothing I do seems to get it to install on my system. I'm running Windows XP, have installed Java VM (J2SE v 1.4.2_03), yet executing the jar file - either double clicking in explorer window or running from command line (tried "java -jar ..." and "javaw -jar ...") - results in error. I'm getting "Fatal exception" in windows or "Exception in thread "main" java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file" when using prompt.

Before I give up and try another editor, does anyone have a clue on how I can solve this?
complier plugin
Submitted by Anonymous on Saturday, 17 January, 2004 - 15:40
I installed jedit, it works fine. I have installed all the plugins but , jcomplier, jswat, jinni,headline,antalope, xptracker and navigator. I get this error message if I try to install any of these.

an I/O error occured(http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jedit-plugin/jcomplier-1.5.0-bin.zip)"

How can I fix this, I really need the complier.

Thanks
selection start
Submitted by Anonymous on Saturday, 17 January, 2004 - 21:41
The only feature/behavior that I find missing or am unable to write a macro to do is to begin a selection with a keystoke and have that selection continue to grow and shrink as I move around in the file -- usually with remapped cursor keys (e.g., ctl-j, ctl-k, etc). The selection would 'end' when I operate on it -- copy, cut, write, etc. I have used CodeWright in the past, and it works this way -- and I have grown very accustomed to it. The only real difference between this behavior and the normal mode, is that it is not necessary to continue to hold down the SHIFT' key to expand or modify the selection. If there is a way to make this happen via a macro or other mechanism, please, please let me know. I hope this explanation clear enough.
Allowing ErrorList to work with custom tags
Submitted by Anonymous on Sunday, 18 January, 2004 - 08:26
I am new to jEdit and am trying to get my head around plugins. I have installed the SideKick and related plugins which look promising for the css and php development that I am doing. But I would like to create Movable Type templates using jEdit, and the ErrorList plugin throws errors with the custom Movable Type tags that are present.

Is there an easy way to let ErrorList ignore custom tags such as the MT content tags, or recognize them as valid?

Thanks in advance.

Matt
add line guides
Submitted by Brad Mace on Monday, 19 January, 2004 - 00:14
Why not add options for line guides? Could have caret, wrap, and custom guides.
Show next tab stop
Submitted by Brad Mace on Monday, 19 January, 2004 - 00:16
Option to show where hitting 'tab' will put the caret
Doesn't highlight multiple selections
Submitted by Brad Mace on Monday, 19 January, 2004 - 00:22
Only the most recent selection is highlighted when multiple selections have been made.
"Persistent" Blocks
Submitted by Anonymous on Monday, 19 January, 2004 - 16:57
Hello. I am new to Jedit so if this is already implemented somewhere, I'd appreciate a pointer...

I am moving from an editor which allows one to start and end a block of selected text and then to move the cursor to the location where the selected text should be moved/copied WITHOUT having the selection disappear. In this manner, you do not have to (a) select, (b) copy/cut, (c) move to target location, and (d) paste. Instead you (a) select, (b) move to target, and (c) copy/move.

If there is any way to implement this using a plugin, I am willing to give it a shot. I just have no idea where/how to begin.
Rectangular/Column Selections Using The Keyboard?
Submitted by Anonymous on Monday, 19 January, 2004 - 16:59
Hello. I am new to Jedit so if this is already implemented somewhere, I'd appreciate a pointer...

From what I can see in the docs, the only way to perform column selections is to use the mouse. Is there any way to accomplish this with the keyboard alone?

If there is any way to implement this using a plugin, I am willing to give it a shot. I just have no idea where/how to begin.

Thanks,

David
Rectangular/Column Selections Using The Keyboard?
Submitted by Anonymous on Monday, 19 January, 2004 - 16:59
Hello. I am new to Jedit so if this is already implemented somewhere, I'd appreciate a pointer...

From what I can see in the docs, the only way to perform column selections is to use the mouse. Is there any way to accomplish this with the keyboard alone?

If there is any way to implement this using a plugin, I am willing to give it a shot. I just have no idea where/how to begin.

Thanks,

David
Cursor Beyond Line End?
Submitted by Anonymous on Monday, 19 January, 2004 - 17:55
Hello. I am new to Jedit so if this is already implemented somewhere, I'd appreciate a pointer...

As far as I can tell, there is no way to permit the cursor to move beyond a line's end into "virtual" space. Is there any way to permit this? Once in "virtual" space, any character entered will be placed at that location and the characters between the current line end and the new character are "filled" with white spaces. This would also permit the cursor to NOT have to follow line ends while moving up and down in a file.

If there is any way to implement this using a plugin, I am willing to give it a shot. I just have no idea where/how to begin.
Search Options
Submitted by Anonymous on Monday, 19 January, 2004 - 18:32
i was wondering if there was any way to control the options on the search menu. I always use Ctrl-F to pop up the menu and enter my search string and hit enter, only to find out that "Ignore Case" isn't set. Is there a way to get that set by default ?

thanks.
Newbie Request
Submitted by Anonymous on Monday, 19 January, 2004 - 20:43
Hi,

I'm a newbie jEdit plug-in developer and have a quick request for help/pointers for a particular effect that I'm trying to achieve. I've been designing/developing an open hypermedia system, Chimera, since 1992 and over the years Chimera has been integrated with a number of text editors including vi, emacs, MS Word, etc. and now, hopefully, jEdit! The main difficulty in integrating a text editor is figuring out how to "create anchors" that is, understanding how to ask the editor to display a piece of text in a format that indicates that an anchor/link exists within the document (using the ubiquitous format of blue, underlined text).
"Getting" a plug-in with no dockable window
Submitted by Anonymous on Monday, 19 January, 2004 - 22:28
Hi,

The plug-in tutorial presents an example of associating actions with a plug-in in which each action retrieves its plug-in like this:

view.getDockableWindowManager().getDockable(QuickNotepadPlugin.NAME).chooseFile();

That is, it assumes you want to create a plug-in with a dockable window. If I don't want to create a dockable window, how do I create an instance of my plug-in and what code would I put in my actions.xml file to retrieve it? Is there something like:

view.getPlugin(QuickNotepadPlugin.NAME).chooseFile()

??

Please send responses to this forum (which I'm monitoring) and/or Ken Anderson at "kena at cs.colorado.edu".
Widgets
Submitted by Brad Mace on Tuesday, 20 January, 2004 - 01:01
Contains handy components for use in other plugins. Others are free to add their own components as long as existing components aren't broken.
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Poll
Are you interested in language packs for jEdit?
Yes, and I could help maintain translations
26%
Yes, I'd like to have translations
32%
Indifferent
35%
No, that'd be bad (please comment)
7%
Total votes: 1093
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R Edit Mode - extensive version   0.1   17488
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