Is there any known way to use jEdit as an eclipse plugin. This would be a killer feature. Does it exist?

Hello,

I discovered jEdit a few days and wonder what are the programming softwares used to design and develop it : IDEs, tools, WYSIWYG dialog editors (if any)...

Once upon a time...

In 1998 I bought a book to learn Java as we had an applet development class at the university. I got [i]Teach yourself Java 1.2 in 21 days[/i] by Laura Lemay and Rogers Cadenhead. As I had a C/C++ background, once the class was over, I gave up on learning Java and went back to my good old Microsoft Visual Studio, MFC (Microsoft/C++ GUI programming libraries like AWT/Swing). A few days ago I asked on Usenet if someone knew a good editor to replace my good-old but buggy NoteTab Light (improved Notepad, text editor). Someone adviced me to try jEdit.

At first I thought that jEdit was just an other boring programming editor. But I quickly checked out the main website and community... It really reminded me of HTML-Kit, one of my favourite web design & development tool. Plugins, manuals, forums, you name it. To say the least, I'm impressed. I know a few other Java softwares but none of them is as well polished, designed, extensible and powerful as jEdit. The plugin manager is terrific as it allows you to extend jEdit from the editor itself, read the descriptions, select the one you want to download and install... Done in a few minutes. I got the BufferTabs plugin and even if jEdit doesn't seem to remember that the plugin was checked (I have to check it each time I launch jEdit), it works like a charm. I was also able to switch from one look & feel to the other, Windows look & feel is just as good as the MFC one. Last but not least I didn't even know that Java has its own Microsoft HTMLHelp (chm).

So as a poor lonesome Microsoft Visual Studio/MFC user and developer, I wonder what are the softwares used to design and develop jEdit. What are the IDEs that can be compared to Microsoft Visual Studio ? A tool that would allow me to design dialogs using WYSIWYG and powerful tools, debugger, profiler, all jEdit features... and more ? I know jEdit has some good plugins to debug and stuff but I don't think I can design dialogs, menus, software interfaces, using jEdit. Am I right ?

I only know a few IDEs and can't really try them all. I know Eclipse but for what I know, there's no dialog editor.

End of story, bye bye (Shrek ^^).

Last but not least, do you know of any good books to learn jEdit-like software design and development ? I found hundreds of books about Java development but I can't believe I have to read them all to develop a single software. I got 2 MFC books to learn MFC and Windows software development, it was far sufficient.

Thanks for your time and help,
JM

Is it possible to use external java libraries in macros?
If yes, where should I put them?

I'm new to jedit and I've check serveral jedit forums and google groups, but I cannot seem to locate a good answer, so I'll try here. With "Find All" in XSearch, all of the matches are highlighted, but the highlights are turned off as soon as you click in the text area. I would like to be able to do a "Find all" using anything, but be able to keep the matches highlighted. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

I have installed a plugin I think which allows compiling java source. Trouble is when I start JEdit it says it can't find tools.jar and that I should use the J2SDK. Well how do I configure JEdit to use the JDK instead of the JRE? Thanks.

Hello -
I am having trouble using the context menu in windows xp to open a selected file. When I highlight a file, right click it, I can see the option "Open with jEdit". When I select this, jEdit opens, but not the selected file. The last open file seems to be the one that is displayed. I also found that jedit is unable to open files from the command line ex. "jedit textfile.txt". The only way I can open a file is the open dialog with in jedit. Any ideas?

When plugin development trails the current version, I would like to run both the lastest version and a stable version for my favorite plugins.

Is it possible to have more than one version of jEdit installed and usable?

Mark L.

Jedit would not run after making a few changes to a new untitled file, and then exiting jedit, discarding changes. I use XP SP1 and the jedit build was 4.2 pre12. If you blow away the user directory, then jedit works again. Had to go back to 4.1.

where do i put the scheme file ? i've search all over the manuals and forums and the search box for the past hour but no mention anywhere. something so simple an instruction cannot be found. where do i put it ?? or rather what extra instruction should i do with it ??

mike

Is it possible for jEdit to install plugins/macros in '/Library' in OSX? I don't know how to migrate the plugins from one version to the next without just re-installing (slow, even on broadband). Perhaps in '/Library/Application Support/jEdit'? I think that would bed a good path. Anything version specific would either be installed in the application directory or in a folder with the version name.

Hello,

I am currently working on a plugin for a stx-debugger (stx is similar to xslt).
So I use a nice toolbar. Is there a possibility to hide the toolbar until
the dockable of my plugin was loaded.

Greetings,
Tolja

Hello jEdit users and devs,

I've been using jEdit for about half a year and I simply love it. Installed a bunch of extremely useful plugins, re-wrote my php scheme file to have php5 syntax highlighting and other things missing from the default php scheme (like inline-php inside html tags, etc) but one thing is really bugging me.

How can I turn off indentation of next lines (indentNextLine) when i'm inside comments? Is it possible? I have defined my own indentNextLine RegExp pattern inside the php.xml file, but I'm still affected by it ...

I can say I am quite familier with the language scheme xml files. I saw that for a language, the main properties (like indentNextLine) must be defined inside the <PROPS> tags for the <MODE> and cannot be defined for a <RULE>.

If I could disable indentation of next line when inside comments, then a much simpler but at the same time more customizable regexp patter could be used for indentNextLine ... for example, indent everything not ending in ";|,|.|}" (it's not what I use, but just an example).

Also, is it possible to disable the "Deep Indent" (which I simply love) inside comments? It is really annoying when you don;t close an opened bracket on the same line

I have a couple other suggestion regarding the syntax highlighting engine but i'll post them in the bug/request forum. I can ask though a question: is it possible to have the same symbol/string for MARK_FOLLOWING and MARK_PREVIOUS? For example I would like "::" to mark everything before as a class name (say, KEYWORD4) and everything after as a property/method (say KEYWORD3). If it's doable from within the xml mode file, please somebody give me a hint.

Thanks a lot, Bogdan

SciTE has this feature, which is the reverse of "tab indent". With this, I can press backspace once to clear an indentation, instead of pressing it n times (n = tab width). I know the existances of shift-tab and alt-left, but "backspace unindent" can be more efficient in some cases, plus I already get used to it

Hi I try to load file and perfomes some transformation on it then save on a loop of file.
But I am having a error on I/O perming so I try to wait for the
buffer to do it's job but then I only manage to have a Message instead of a error
Thread.sleep block Jedit an empty loop too.
this is the only working code but I like it to be without Message.

while(buffer.isPerformingIO()){
//this.wait(2);
//Thread.sleep(10);
Macros.message(view, nBFichier+" buffer.isPerformingIO()" );
}

Right now (as far as I know), jEdit checks the file extension (.c or .java for example) to decide what editing mode to go into. However, both C, Objective-C and C++ all use .h files. And the default is to go into Objective-C. Would it be possible to have jEdit actually check the code (for instance, if there's "class" inside a .h file, it's obviously c++) as well as the extension? This way I won't have to manually change the editing mode (which affects the syntax highlighting).

I think that If a feature such as encryption was added to jedit, it would make it that much better. Because I have not found an encryption utility for mac os [ any version ].



The kinds of encryption I am thinking of is 128 bit to 256 bit encryption with a password. [ you can't decrypt something without the password used to encrypt it.].

Hello,
i'm using a java-editor-application developed for my own needs.

Now i'm interested in migrating from JEditPane to JEditTextArea. And now the question: is there anywhere a documentation if there are incompatibilites between these two components.

I've read, that there will be a stand-alone component of the JEditTextArea. Is this right? And if yes, when do you think, will it be published.

Is there also a possibility to take the syntax-highlighting and add it to a standard JEditPane without using JEditTextArea? The Syntax-Highlighting found at http://syntax.jedit.org/ is a little bit out of date, so this isn't interesting to me.

The highlighting as a bean, that could be plugged in a JEditPane would be really great. Are there any ideas, if that's possible?

Thanks for your help! Kind regards......

is it possible to access a Jedit Instance on computer A from computer B ?

Where can I find emacs-like key bindings for jedit? A google search didn't turn anything up.

Thanks,
-Mike