I do a lot of work with EDI at work, and I've been trying to write a mode for it, but I keep running up against JEdit's mode syntax. It just doesn't support what I need.

EDI is a positional syntax, with fields being of fixed or semi-variable length, seperated by a delimiter. The delimiter itself is variable: While there are supposed to be specific choices, in reality any punctuation character has probably been used. To complicate things more, EDI has the concept of 'segments', which are often seperated by line breaks, but not always. (There again, any punctuation character should probably be considered valid, though in both cases it will stay constant within a file.)

So, ideally, I'd like to match the first few characters to a sequence, then use the next character as a delimiter (whatever character that is), then divide the rest of the file into fields by that character. A known number of fields from the start I can find the segment delimiter, which I would like to use as a line-ending. (In the cases where it isn't, there is usually no other line ends in the file.) Also, I'd like to be able to highlight as tokens certain fields, counting from line/segment-ends.

Problem is, there is no good way to do this in mode-syntax. I can highlight the delimiters, by entering a list of the common ones, but any attempt to highlight what is *within* them meets with problems. The most common problem is that the delimiters can only be part of *one* match. So, for instance, a 'span' rule will only match every other field.

Some of the 'interesting' fields of EDI have specific values, which I can then sequence-match, but many do not.

So, some specific suggestions:
- A delimiter-count match. Choose a delimiter, and match specific sequences divided by that delimiter. (And, possibly, end-of-lines). The delimiter itself is not part of the sequence matched, or at least can be applied a seperate token.
- An extension of the 'Terminate' rule, allowing termination at a specific character (or even regrex) instead of at a specific position. Again, the option to 'eat' the matched character or not.
- A property/rule to allow/force wrapping on specified non-whitespace characters.
- The ablity to _disallow_ wrapping on whitespace characters.

These may not be the best way to approach the problems, but they are rules that I can think of that would help. EDI itself does not have the concept of escape characters, but I can imagine that would be a useful addition to a delimiter rule.

Is there any option to make the autocomplete feature in jEdit ignore case?

I.e., right now if I have the word "Something" in the buffer, and I type "some" and try to use autocomplete, it will not list "Something" as an option because I began the word with lower case. However, I WOULD like it to list "Something" in this case.

It should be a mode-dependent setting as to whether or not the autocomplete feature is case sensitive.

Hi all,
First i installed JEdit. Then i followed all instructions at this page http://www.jedit.org/ruby/download/
No somehow i can smell some problem here. I don't think its installed properly. Whenever i
-Open menu Utilities->Global Options
-Go to Shortcuts
I don't see 'Plugin: RubyPlugin' here. Why ? I also tried to install RubyPlugin 0.6.6 by clicking the following link
http://www.jedit.org/ruby/download/RubyPlugin_0-6-6.jar
but i always get an error page.
Folks please help me in installing this ruby pluggin. I would really appreciate your time and help. Any help will be highly appreciated.
Regards,
-Naive

Hi,

I want to retrieve the values in the jEitor (what ever we typed in the editor) and store into a database.
if any body have this idea, then can you tell me?


Thanks & Regards,
Balamurugan SE

I really like how easily you can customize the right-click menu and add your own shortcuts. But a feature I think would be really nice would be to have submenu items within the right-click menu. And so you can group shortcuts within a submenu.
For example, when you right click the mouse you would see something like this:
Menu1>
Menu2>

Anything with a ">" indicates a submenu. And then when you click on Menu1, you would see its submenu.

Menu1 >
shortcut1
shortcut2
Menu2 >


regards,
Phong

When I try to run JCompiler, it gives me an error saying that my 'java.home' appears to be "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_04". Where is it getting that from? It's not from my environmental settings:

powem@PDXPOWEM01 [ ~ ]
--> echo $JAVA_HOME
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_04

c:\src>set
CLASSPATH=C:\Program Files\MySQL\mysql-connector-java-3.1.10;
JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_04

I've looked in various properties files and can't find any place to set this value. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

mp

hi,

any one can explain how initial value pass to the jEdit.java (command line arguments) program and where you get that initial value? what is that file name?

thanks
Balamurugan SE

Hi all, Currently i'm trying to write macro to convert degrees to decimal form and back and have some problems. Input is string and I need convert that string after splitting into parts to numbers, but macro ends with error complaining that unable to casto sting to integer. parseInt also not working. What's wrong ? Thanks for answers Here is code:

 void convert_coordinates() {
   private int Laipsniai;
   if (textArea.getSelectedText().contains(" ") == true ) {
     format = 1;
     Macros.message(view,"Degrees");
   } else {
     format = 0;
     Macros.message(view,"Decimal degrees");
   };
   
   switch (format) {
     case 1:
       Elements = textArea.getSelectedText().split(" ");
       Laipsniai = Elements[0];
       Macros.message(view,"Laipsniai: "+Laipsniai);
       textArea.setSelectedText(Laipsniai);
     break;
     
     case 0:
       Elements = textArea.getSelectedText().split("[.,]");
       textArea.setSelectedText("1:"+Elements[0]+" 2:"+Elements[1]);
     break;
   };
 }

 if (textArea.getSelectedText() == null) {
   Macros.error(view,"No coordinates selected !!!");
 } else {
   convert_coordinates();
 };

Using jEdit to edit Ruby source code, using the RubyPlugin 0.6.9, I try to run the current buffer, e.g. by launching run from the action Action Bar. This causes following popup: 'No Interpreter Defined - There is no interpreter associated with this buffer. You can specify interpreters on a mode-specific basis in the Utilities->Global Options dialog box.'
For one, I would expect that the RubyPlugin would define ruby as the interpreter for ruby mode buffers.
For two, I have looked in vain through the Global Options dialog and I can not find an option to define compilers/interpreters on a mode-specific basis. I feel so stupid, as I have seen that panel while I was initially playing around with jEdit. But I can't find it anymore!?
Can anybody give me a pointer?
TIA, Guido

I'm using jEdit under linux redhat enterprise 3 I have XML plug-in 0.13 and sidekick 0.3.4 and I consistanly get thoses messages:
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: Cannot find CatalogManager.properties
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: Cannot find CatalogManager.properties
[error] AWT-EventQueue-0: Cannot find CatalogManager.properties
[error] SideKick #1: Cannot find CatalogManager.properties
[error] SideKick #1: Cannot find CatalogManager.properties

It doesn't seems to do anything but its really annoying and i was wondering how I could fix this.
Thanks in advance for your help.

HolyBastard

Hello

I've been using phpEclipse but I've been looking at PHP Designer 2005. How does jEdit compare to these for php development?

I've found Eclipse can be a unstable in that I have to periodically re-install it in Windows. Plus I currently only have a Pentium 2 at home.

I've also got Netbeans 4.1 loaded for JSP2/Servlets

Thanks

Peter Mount

Hi

I tried using the plugin manager to install 11 plugins through my dial up modem at home. I had trouble as I kept getting a timeout message so none of the plugins downloaded. Could this be a problem with the server?

Thanks

In all other applications that I use under Windows, touching and then releasing the ALT key makes the menu bar active, with the "accelerator" keys for each main menu item underlined or highlighted.

This doesn't work under jEdit--the only way to get to a menu item (at least for mouse-phobic people like me) is to hold the ALT key down while guessing the letter for the main menu item (F for File, E for Edit, etc.).

Is this a property of jEdit, or of Java? Is there a way to fix it (and I do mean "fix", since I believe the sticky-ALT behavior is standard in MS-Windows)?