I'm a relatively new JEdit user and I enjoy it very much. One point I'm struggling with is the visibility of tools.jar for the JCompiler plug-in.

I know I can just copy it into the jedit/jars folder (because I did this on a friends laptop just to get it working) but i really, REALLY want to solve this problem using JAVA_HOME and/or CLASSPATH.

When I installed the SDK (1.4.02), I opted to allow it to install the public JRE as well (was this my bad?). Without having set any environment variables (did I mention I'm using Windows XP Pro?), the plug-in reports that it can't find tools.jar ... that my java.home is the public install (c:\program files\java\j2re1.4.2_04\bin) ... the the tools.jar file is usually found (relative to java.home) in ..\lib, so...

I've tried creating a CLASSPATH env var that points specifically to the tools.jar in the SDK/lib directory... I've tried adding a JAVA_HOME env var that points to the SDK's \bin directory, and to the actual root/home directory... none of these things seems to work.

I feel as if I'm going to HAVE to copy tools.jar into jedit/jar in order to get this to work but I can't help but wonder if I'm just overlooking some simple step/idea that would allow me to get this working WITHOUT having to do the copy.

Any help much appreciated!

Richard

I've just moved to jedit from Textpad. I've been trying to find something that runs under Linux that is close enough to Textpad that I can use it. jedit appears to do most of the things that I want, however there is one thing that is really annoying me in the way that jedit works. Note: I'm using jedit primarily to develop in PHP.

Basically, it's the auto-tabbing functionality. My style of tabbing is to use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment. For example, if I'm writing a line that declares an array with some elements, I want to put each element of the array onto a seperate line to make the code more readable. I want the elements to align vertically for easy reading. Each of these lines is tabbed to the same level as the first line, and then aligned from there with spaces. This means that anyone can view the code with their preferred tab size and everything still lines up as originally intended. If spaces or tabes are used to both align and indent, one of these conditions is not met (if you only use spaces people can't view the code in their favoured tab size: if you only use tabs things don't align in tab sizes other than the one used by the author).

Anyway, the upshot is that I end up with lines that start with a number of tabs followed by a number of spaces. The problem is that in jedit when I press return to start a new line, jedit converts most of the spaces into tabs, meaning I have to delete them and add the spaces I want manually. To make matters worse, if I press tab jedit does it again, and created the extra tabs that I don't want. Textpad would simply repeat the same tabbing as the previous line, which is exactly what I want.

I've looked through the options of jedit and can find no option to turn this off. Does anyone know if one, and if not how hard would it be to add one?

Oh, I'm using jedit 4.1 final.

Thanks a lot!

Hi, how can I write JavaScript code with JEdit, so when I write 'window.' for example, a list of properties of 'window' appear?

I've noticed that the FTP plugin (v0.7.2) in 4.2pre11 is not saving favorites (on two different machines). What information is required to help determine if this is an actual bug or some configuration (or other) problem in my installation?


Maury...

I want to use a custom class to interpret a selected message (byte array) and create a new buffer with a nicely formatted, understandable, version of the message. I cant use the addClassPath() method of beanshell, I cant seem to get the instance of the Interpreter class, and I cant find the loadJarClasses.bsh mentioned in the jEdit manual.

Can anybody lend a hand?

Thanks

I want to use a custom class to interpret a selected message (byte array) and create a new buffer with a nicely formatted, understandable, version of the message. I cant use the addClassPath() method of beanshell, I cant seem to get the instance of the Interpreter class, and I cant find the loadJarClasses.bsh mentioned in the jEdit manual.

Can anybody lend a hand?

Thanks

I would like to see one nice feature in jEdit for PHP-Mode (or generally in all possible for other people). Just a simple code analyzer. Didn´t found it as plugin, yet. It should parse the current buffer for i.e. uninitialized variables (assigning values before initializing it), unused variables (used only on time), scanning statements (wrong operators = instead of == or =< instead of <= and so on), check line ends on : instead of ; (this happens often to "fast writers" like me ) resulting in "parse error" and listing of all functions including parameters for quick navigation (although it can be done by using folding smartly). This is the only big missing point for me against one special commercial PHP-IDE and I won´t miss jEdit anymore after two years and waiting impatiently for 4.2final. Of course, I could setup a PHP-Script for this but programmers are some kind of lazy - you know what I mean...

Hi-

I'm running JEdit pre11 on MacOSX.3.

I can't seem to get the Project plugin 'Preview in Browser' menu option to work.

I've tried setting the browser path to all sorts of things, including:
open (a generic 'open this file' command)
open -a /Applications/Firefox.app (a request to open a file with an application)
/Applications/Firefox.app
/usr/bin/open (the full path to open)

I keep getting 'Error starting process: Application not found'

Has anyone got this to work on MacOS 10? Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Eric Everman

I have been toying with java gui + jython under jedit. I found the code below as a starting point. It works!

The only problem is that when the jython "exit(1)" statement is invoked it not only exits the current (jython+java) window but jedit completely and anything jedit has spawned.

So, what I need for a well-behaved popup frame is one that will not exit jedit when I close it, but rather the frame only.

My guess is I will find the answer as I learn more Java (I'm trying to get an easy intro through jython and jedit). But if anyone has a simple solution, that would be great: I would like to have menus pop up for certain macros and this looks like a good (?) way to do it -- though I'm sure beanshell would work just as well.

(PS: I think the following code formatting gets zapped by this forum software.)



import sys,time
from java import awt

# This is an edited version of a QA tool that I wrote
# Not all the variable names will make sense in this example
# like, 'proclist' and 'job', but you can still figure it out.
#
# The app is based off of the style that wxPython uses, which makes it really easy to
# extend.
class App:

def __init__(self):

procList = []
for i in range(1,11):
procList.append("Test #"+str(i))

self.frame = awt.Frame("Perform Work for Java", visible=1)
self.mainpanel = awt.Panel(awt.GridLayout(0,2))
#added this... does not seem to work; might need to use swing
#frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(awt.Frame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE)

self.cb = {}
for p in procList:
cBox,txtField = self.choiceBox(p)
self.cb[cBox] = txtField
self.mainpanel.add(cBox)
self.mainpanel.add(txtField)

exitBtn = awt.Button("exit", actionPerformed=self.exit)

printBtn = awt.Button("Do Tests", actionPerformed=self.doTest)

self.mainpanel.add(printBtn)
self.mainpanel.add(exitBtn)

self.frame.add(self.mainpanel)
# I've found that packing the frame is a must, though I haven't seen many examples
# that use it. Maybe I'm missing something.
self.frame.pack()

def choiceBox(self,label):
checkBox = awt.Checkbox(label)
numberBox = awt.TextField()
panel = awt.Panel(awt.GridLayout(1,2))

return checkBox,numberBox

def exit(self,e):
sys.exit(1) #here is where it shuts everything down.
pass

def doTest(self,e):

# this pops up a dialog
dlg = MsgDlg("Running Tests")

for job in self.cb.keys():
if job.getState():
print job.getLabel()+" --> "+ self.cb[job].text

time.sleep(2)
# remove the dialog
dlg.frame.removeNotify()

class MsgDlg:
def __init__(self,msg):
self.frame = awt.Frame("Doing Tests", visible=1)
self.panel = awt.Panel(awt.GridLayout(1,1))

self.panel.add(awt.Label(msg))

self.frame.add(self.panel)
self.frame.pack()

if __name__ == '__main__':
# this starts the main window up
app = App()

I have jus installed jEdit , and I am-was an editplus user
I cannot find any cliptext or snippets menu in jedit, how can you install use or create one ?

thank you

VB NET support will be a good thing

i love jedit its a great pieace of sofware. What i found realy its a bug but sumthing that should be fixed. The drop down under the main tool bar (used to select open files), the part that drops down starts at the left side of the screen. it should start at the begining of the applications left side.

btw: i have my start menu on the left side of my screen and it over-laps the dropdown. manny applications has problems like this.

Hi all
Jedit has option of opening/saving files from ftp server thru ftp plugin. Can I ask it to show me one of the server which I use most frequently by default instead of browsing thru pulldown menu and remember its password.Can I make a quick shortcut for opening/saving to that serverer something that will quickly bring up the ftp dialog box.
SS

When I try to enable or disable the Background plugin via JEdit's Plugins menu, the following BeanShell error message appears:

~~~ begin error text:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.gjt.sp.jedit.textarea.JEditTextArea.getFoldVisibilityManager()Lorg/gjt/sp/jedit/textarea/FoldVisibilityManager;
at background.BackgroundHighlight.updateTextArea(Unknown Source)
at background.BackgroundHighlight.toggleHighlightEnabledFor(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at bsh.Reflect.invokeOnMethod(Reflect.java:149)
at bsh.Reflect.invokeStaticMethod(Reflect.java:100)
at bsh.Name.invokeMethod(Name.java:872)
at bsh.BSHMethodInvocation.eval(BSHMethodInvocation.java:72)
at bsh.BSHPrimaryExpression.eval(BSHPrimaryExpression.java:102)
at bsh.BSHPrimaryExpression.eval(BSHPrimaryExpression.java:47)
at bsh.BSHBlock.evalBlock(BSHBlock.java:130)
at bsh.BSHBlock.eval(BSHBlock.java:80)
at bsh.BshMethod.invokeImpl(BshMethod.java:349)
at bsh.BshMethod.invoke(BshMethod.java:246)
at bsh.BshMethod.invoke(BshMethod.java:171)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.BeanShell.runCachedBlock(BeanShell.java:523)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.BeanShellAction.invoke(BeanShellAction.java:76)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.gui.InputHandler.invokeAction(InputHandler.java:229)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.jEdit$3.invokeAction(jEdit.java:2882)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.EditAction$Wrapper.actionPerformed(EditAction.java:216)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$ForwardActionEvents.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$MouseInputHandler.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
~~~ end error text.

When I press the error dialog's "ok" button, only the area of the JEdit window that was covered by the error dialog has been cleared of the background image. If I first drag the error dialog box all over the JEdit window, I can effectively remove any trace of the image so that when I press the error dialog's "ok" button, the desired state of no background image results.

Anyone else experience this? Find a workaround or fix?

Richard

I looked for this and couldn't find it, hopefully its not located in another section.

For those Windows users that don't want to open up JEdit explicitly and then open up the code files, you can associate your code file with the jedit.exe directly and then when you double click on the file, it will open in JEdit. To change the association, you can find this a File Explorer window->Tools->Folder Options->File Types.

I kept trying to send the code(.java) file to the jedit.jar file as an option. Probably most aren't that ignorant, but now you know.

hi, i'm trying to find html tag insertion plugin for jedit. the thing i'm looking for is kinda like the feature they have in EditPlus for the Windows platform. any clues on whether or not Jedit has such a feature, and how i might enable it?

thanks

Hi-
I'm running 4.2pre11 on MacOSX 10.3. I'm trying to set up for a presentation in which I would like to have multiple instances of JE running, each with different files open (Beyond what can be done with the project plugin). To prevent multiple JE instances from being linked (ie forced to have the same files open), I'm trying to use the -noserver option. The first problem I found is that adding the -noserver flag causes this message in the activity log:

[warning] jEdit: You cannot specify both the -background and -noserver switches

This seems like a bug, since the docs state that the -nobackground option is the default, and I don't see that I have the -background option set anywhere. Attempting to work around this, I added the -nobackground option to my startup. This results in no mention in the Activity Log and 'unlinking'. It seems that the -noserver flag is ignored.

Here is the relavant snipet from the Info.plist file (inside JEdit.app - its a way of bundling java apps with all of their commandline options in OSX):

<key>Arguments</key>
<string>-noserver -nobackground</string>

Has anyone gotten the noserver argument to work? Anyone specifically in OSX or 4.2pre11?

Thanks guys-

JEdit is the best tool in my box,
Eric Everman

HI All,
I can not move/resize the jedit window anymore. I do not know what thing is wrong clicked. I am using RH7.3 Jedit 4.1 final. Please give me some hint about how to fix it. Thanks.
rcen