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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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).

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".

Hello and thanks for looking and helping me out. I am using version 4.1 final.

For my second macro, I wish to write a routine that allows me to prompt the user for a single character and then to replace every character position in a selected area with that user-supplied character. Seems like it sould be pretty simple.

What I am finding is that it is not as easy as I expected. It seems that when selections include areas beyond the end of a line, the values I get for the start and end positions on those lines are not what I expect. They are offets into the buffer and there is no accounting for the selected area that has "virtual" space. There appears to be no way (in the API) for me to find the on-screen bondaries of the selected area.

jedit does not indent perl code correctly in some instances. For example, when splitting an argument list between parentheses over several lines, jedit will indent the next statemetn under the argument list instead of under the beginning of the previous statement. Example:

somefunctioncall($arg1,
                 $arg2);

                 beginning of next statement;

Is there a way to change this behavior? Is it possible to customize the indentation rules?