I had this issue in Linux, with 4.2 pre 8 and in pre 9 as well.

jEdit does not accept the tilde as a single character. For instance, I tried to type a web address as www.ic.unicamp.br/~ra, but the tilde does not show up.

Latin characters, such as ã, ñ, etc. show fine.

If I use another editor to type the tilde alone, and copy-paste it into jEdit, it works fine.

In Windows it works fine.

Is there any way to prevent JEdit from resolving symlinks ?

Our source control system works by creating symlinks links into a hash directory structure.

So when you try to edit
/source/project_x/foo.c

you see something like
/db/213445/234234/2453425.data

This means that the syntax highlighting doesn't get
enabled automatically. Also, the current working directory is set to the source db which makes it difficult to run make.

I use jedit 4.1 final. I recently installed the XSLT plugin, but the plugin UI doesn't show widgets for selecting the xsl file or for specifying stylesheet parameters. That area is filled with a hatch pattern. I've tried reinstalling the plugin, and uninstall/reinstall jedit entirely, but still no go. ANy ideas?

Thanx

I've been trying for the last couple of hours to install jEdit on my computer at work but can't seem to make this happen. As I recall the last time I installed this software on my home computer it was quite simple. I have tried following your instructions on http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download but haven't had any luck. I'm hoping you can provide me some guidance before I abandon this software and try something else. I am running Windows 2000 Pro on both my of my systems at home and at work.

So far this is what I have done:
1. Downloaded the latest stable verson (4.1) to a directory named c:\Downloads
2. From here I extracted the jedit41install.jar into the same directory i.e., c:\Downloads
3. Ok . . . Now what???

I noticed both the JavaStyle and Jalopy plugins don't cope with the new syntax in JDK 1.5 for Java Generics which use <> to specify types. e.g. Hashtable ht= new Hashtable();

Are there any updates planned for either of these plugins?

I have been creating a parser that can create syntax highlighted html documents or fragments based on jEdit mode files. jEdit has an honourable list of modes. There is also some explanation of how the syntax package interprets these mode files. That documentation is only partial though and the separate syntax package is unmaintained.

That is why I decided to do my own parser but reuse the ideas and mode files from jedit for a generic syntax highlight component. But I noticed that the modes and the regex:es used would need more of specification work so that maybe in the future also other editors could parse those mode files and finally there would emerge some sort of standard in specifying syntax highlight modes.

Of course this specification would do good to jEdit's syntax package and it's corresponding documentation.

In the course of the following weeks my intention is to start that process as replies to this topic and if it starts catching some interest then maybe these ideas will be implemented.

My intention is not to add more features to the syntax highlighting system but rather to define it more precisely and also increase it's simplicity and elegance.

I have instaled Jedit. Now I try to open or save a file but the editor gives me the same message as follows: "Unsuported Encoding exeption: ISO8859_2 . Only ASCII and UTF-8 ecnodings work.
My operating system is windows XP Czech location. Normaly I use cp1250 or ISO8859_2 encoding.
Do you have any idea how to repair this problem?
Thanks

I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong... I can get Indent folding mode to work but not Explicit. Would someone please give me detailed instructions for setting/using Explicit folding?

Many thanks,
Doug

Is there a way to make the url in my text file (e.g. http://www.sun.com) into a hyper link so I can just click on it and have it open in a browser instead of copying the url as I have to do now? Don't know if this is possible.

When I Alt-Tab in Windows XP from another application to jEdit, jEdit thinks that I've hit the Alt key and the top menu gets the focus. I have to hit escape (or Alt) to go back to editing. Does anyone else have this problem?

Hi. I'm used working on web projects where the working sources are on local drive and I make tests sending the pages via FTP on remote production server. Is there a way to make the job this way?
Thanks in advance
Paolo

Is there a way to select text between spaces? (e.g. selecting a complete url http://www.sun.com )

I know there are commands to "select to start of white space" and "select to end of white space" but they will not work together in multiple selection mode.

I like to put cursor anywhere on the url and be able to select the complete url. Is it possible? Combination of steps are fine since I will be recording a macro for the whole process.

Hello, I use jEdit with great success on my Creative Muvo memory stick (128MB). I hoping someone could give me a quick way to point jEdit's backup directory to a directory on the memory stick, regardless of the drive path (as the usb stick can PnP with any PC/drive letter). So I have created a valid backup path like: :files\japps\jedit\workbkups and I essentially want to have jEdit see "${JEDIT_HOME}\workbups" as the backup path to send all backups there... but I can't figure out how to do it....is there a simple beanshell script someone can offer to load at runtime to set the parameter, or some other solution? thnx, jEdit is very cool. technx

I remember reading somewhere in the jEdit documentation that there's a problem with getting input from a Java, if the program attempts to read from System.in (i.e., from std input / console input). I can confirm that this is the case, using jEdit (4.1final) / the Console (3.5) plugin on WinXP Pro . The program halts w/ an unhandled exception since it can't read input.

My question is: are there plans to fix this (any time soon)?
Related questions: Is it possible to fix this (i.e., there's nothing in the architecture that will prevent this from eventually working)? If it's not too hard to fix, and someone would be willing to give this newbie a couple of pointers as to where to look, I'd be happy to try fixing it myself.

Some semi-related background: I'd like to use jEdit in a class on Java that I'm teaching at a community college. The students will need to be able to do I/O, and I want to avoid any command line magic (it's "Intro to programming for people who have never programmed before, most of whom have never seen a command prompt before" )

Thanks!
--Mike

I've been using JEdit for awhile now, on the recent pre9 build now. I want to start working on plugin enhancements locally, then submit them...but at some point in the past I started downloading plugins without the source code. I don't want to remove and reinstall the plugins as I will lose configuration--but I want to get the source code for the plugins I have. The Plugin Manager doesn't appear to have this option for installed plugins, only new ones.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Patrick

In most interactive spellcheckers, when the spell checking dialog indicates a word is supposedly misspelled and prompts to ignore it, replace it, etc., the word in question is highlighted in the text buffer being spellchecked, so that one can see the context of the word. However, with the SpellCheck plugin, *all* the text in the buffer is highlighted as part of a selection, and there seems to be no way to see the context of the word. Because of this, a Console window with Aspell or Ispell would arguably be more useful than the SpellCheck plugin as it stands.

(BTW, don't suggest that I use Jazzy. It highlights supposedly mispelled words like it should, but the only way I can get it to handle capitalized words correctly is to add them to Jazzy's dictionary, and that makes Jazzy either hog memory or choke with an OutOfMemory error. But that's another story.)

It creates an extra copy of the files I open that are prepended with a ~ i.e. ~myFile.file. I would like to turn this off if possible.