A really nice feature for jEdit would be to have the menu at the same place where other apps do have their menu in OS X : in the Finder bar !

I notice that jEdit 4.1 did function like this but not jEdit 4.2 ... Why ? this feature is almost essential for us, Mac users ! Even NeoOffice/J has its menu in the Finder bar, like every other app !

Or have I missed sommething ?

Since jEdit comes with an edit mode for Zope Page Templates (zpt), I think it would be natural for the XML plugin to support such files - such as automatic closing tags, block level outline, etc. I've done this by extracting XML.props from the plugin, adding the line mode.zpt.sidekick.parser=html, then updating the jar file. This doesn't do validation, but treats the zpt file like an html one, without having to change my edit mode to html. Could this line be included in future versions of the plugin?

I think that -reuseview is probably the intended behavior almost all the time. If that's true, then it should be the default behavior. You shouldn't have to add it to all your shell aliases, application launchers, file associations, etc...

I am very new to java plugin writing. I would like to know what jEdit options there are for updating buffers when the file it is displaying is modified on disk. Are there jEdit class/methods or how do I incorporate the java File Listeners?

Thanks.

I'm interested in using the Console plugin to display information. I am not interested in displaying the results of an executed script. How can I specifically write to the console shell?

Thanks.

I have a PhD student who is trying to use jEdit to edit large XML files under MacOSX: not
surprisingly, it fails with out of memory errors. So, how do I change the heap size
under MacOSX? There seems to be no documentation at all on this. I could, of course,
write a bash script to run jEdit, or something ugly like that, or I could teach my student
to use emacs (which has much less trouble editing large files). But is there a way of
doing this in jEdit?

Thanks
Graham White

I just installed Jedit on my Window XP PC. Everything works fine through the UI, but when I print to my HP Laserjet, instead of spaces between words it prints little empty boxes (square frame). How do I get rid of the little boxes?

Thanks,
Rich

when i installed the latest version of jEdit on my mac OS X system, everything worked as expected for several editing sessions, but today the file system browser stopped working, even though i hadn't changed anything that could conceivably affect jEdit. i can 'open' a directory by entering its path or selecting one of my favourites, and the directory entry itself and its parent directories are displayed as expected, but every directory i try appears empty; even if it contains a file that is currently open in the editor.

has anyone already had this problem, or an idea what it could be?

Hello all,

I don't know if this has been answered elsewhere, but I hadn't been able to find it.

I am a new jEdit user, with some Emacs background, and I was wandering if there is some way to have the exact (or as similar as possible) incremental search (i-search) of Emacs in jEdit.

I have tried to assign "Incremental Search Bar" to C-s, but I have the problem that in order to search for the next entry, I have to press Enter (cannot do it by pressing C-s again).

Thanks,
Jorge.

This is my env:
Mac OS X 10.3.9
jEdit 4.2final

If i go to "Global Options" -> "Editing" -> "Change settings for mode" and choose the "REBOL mode"
after click on "OK" or "Apply" i don't see the Syntax Highlighting for REBOL

and if i go back to the Global Options i can see that jEdit restore the editing mode to the default ...

what's happen?

For decades (ever since I switched from punchcards ), I've set ^Q to do what you might call "toggle selection". That is, normally my cursor movement keys move the cursor without selecting text. But if I press (and then release) ^Q, then the cursor keys create a selection, as if I were holding the shift key down. Pressing ^Q again turns off selection, as do ^C, ^X etc.

It isn't obvious to me that there is any direct/ simple way to do this kind of toggling in jEdit. (I could write a bunch of macros for all the various cursor movement keys, but not otherwise.) Am I correct?

I have a file with some Unicode chars, and I want to see what Unicode code point they are. It sounds like the 'display character code' macro (accessible from Macros | Misc | Display character code) should do what I want, but in fact I don't see anything when I run it. As I understand it, it's supposed to display on the status line the codepoint of the char at the cursor, but I get nothing.

Is it broken, or am I not holding my mouth right? (I do have the Status Bar turned on, and I believe it has all the default settings. I tried turning off the Buffer Tabs plugin, on the chance that this was messing up the display of the Status Bar, but it didn't help.)

Has anyone seen the way eclipse does dynamic variable highlighting within java projects?

This is a really cool feature and I would love to use it on javascript and php through jedit.

When you click on a variable name, it highlights every instance of that variable within a script. To date, there are no php editors with this feature that I am aware of.

I would like the editor to remember the last (e.g. 10) places where your cursor has been. Then you could just use a keyboard shortcut to cycle through the most recent cursor locations.

E.g.: You are editing code in one area and you need to know the function definition for functionX, so you search for it and possibly edit it, and then you want to simply hop back to the previous character location...or maybe to the place you were editing even before that.

(If you are familiar with the Visual Studio VB 6.0 or .NET IDEs then you might know what I am talking about. They implimented this very nicely. It is CS+F2 in vb6 and C+'-' in .net)

If this is already implimented, just let me know. I may have missed it.
Thanks