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?

Thinking about using jEdit as my main editor,
ie. for text, java, php and other script files.

What Java SDK is the fastest or will give me the most
responsive jEdit?

I'm thinking about startup time from the moment I
double click a file in Windows Explorer.
Using WinXP and I'm going to try jEdit as of ver 4.2final.

I dont know if it's possible or not but I find that when I am cracking out a function or doing a bit of writing at the end of a file I prefer to not be editing at the bottom of the screen.

A text editor in my opinion should allow the user to position the bottom of the file in the middle of the viewing window as opposed to a text viewer which simply needs to display the text.

I am really impressed with jedit so far anyway, thanks a lot.

# jedit
Warning: JAVA_HOME environment variable not set.
Exception in thread "main" java.util.zip.ZipException: Permission denied
	at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
	at java.util.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:112)
	at java.util.jar.JarFile.(JarFile.java:127)
	at java.util.jar.JarFile.(JarFile.java:65)

The cause is the dir /usr/share/jedit not having r-x permissions for "other". Of course this is fixed by simply saying chmod -R o+rX /usr/share/jedit .

I noticed that the dir is missing in the list of files provided by the rpm (as in the output of rpm -q --list -p jedit-4.1-1.noarch.rpm), so this might be the problem and should be fixed. It probably doesn't arise if you don't have such a restrictive umask like me, but then again some people may and they will run into the same problem, so I thought I'd just qickly post this.

Greetings,
Daniel

Hello all!
Is there a simple way to compile c++ in JEdit?

Johan

Each time I update my jedit Version I have to reconstruct the edit modes catalog file

I think it would be a good idea to put the information of the catalog file into the edit mode files themselves.
Jedit should loop over the edit mode files to collect the information.
Then one could also just copy the file into the directory without registering in the catalog file

Jedit for ever ...

Hey everyone Im a college student whose school recently took all the ftp servers offline since they werent secure enough anymore. Does anyone know about an ssh plugin for jedit? Id like to continue using jedit for programming but since my school no longer accepts ftp clients I cant effectivly work in jedit anymore. If its not being made Im hoping someone can maybe start working on it. I know a lot of programmers that are having the same difficulties now with the change over from ftp to an ssh.
Thanks
Macros

At present, the only way one can change the font is through the general option setting. It would be nice if I could do that either through file type, or even for a buffer (essentially, adding this option to the global option/buffer option menu).

Why? For most of the programming job one uses Courier or similar for well-known reasons. However, I sometimes have to edit multilingual RDF/XML files, that includes various indic, chinese, korean, etc, scripts. I can do it very well with jEdit, provided that for that particular buffer I use a proper unicode font that has those unicode characters. On my machine at least that is Arial Unicode MS. SO the only thing I can do is to change the font for jEdit in general to edit this file, and then change it back to Courier if I want to edit, for example, a txt or a python file.

Hello,

I have tried installing both jedit41install.jar and jedit42pre8install.jar on Windows XP Professional, and when the first installation dialog box comes up, I cannot click the Next button. All I get is a double-headed arrow and nothing in the dialog responds. The only way out is for me to right-click on the Task Bar button and stop the JAR file.

Has anyone else seen this behavior? I was able to install JEdit just fine on two other computers -- what could be the problem in this case?

Thanks for any help.

Add to the already large body of programming and language tools by including modes for these popular compiler and lexical analyzer tools.

Which method is recommended for getting a string property like "lineComment" which depend on the current editing mode?
buffer.getMode().getProperty() or can I use buffer.getStringProperty()?

Does jEdit support VRML and if not is it possible to get a syntax package for it in jEdit?