Hi, I have tried to find these answers in the docs w/no luck - if you tell me specifically were an answer is in the docs that would be great or just tell me quickly here how. Thanks. Again thank you - I am trying to config JEdit - I want this as my "goto" editor.

1. How do I toogle the wrap guide on/off? Specifically how - there should be a way. Is the action bar the only way? Please cite how - just this one time for me w/the action bar - another way w/out going into the global config?

2.Right now I use-control the added plugins functionalies from a plugin drop down menu were i have to drill down deep w/the mouse. It's very unwieldy - I want either toggle buttons and/or to add key combo or sometrhing so I could record the actions - I guess I could add it to a marcro and then have a toogle button. How? The drop down menu is "killing" me.

3. The plugin settings are *not* saved when I shut down Jedit - eg. I check that i want buffer tabs (the buffer tab plugin). But when I restartup the changes are not saved - I have to go in to this drop down and reconfig everything - I need a way to save and easily toogle (as I cite above) plugin options and any other changes I make. Same thing - I make want the show whitesapce set my way every time I start - but my previous settings are never saved.

Thank You again,
Lee

Hi, I have tried to find these answers in the docs w/no luck - if you tell me specifically were an answer is in the docs that would be great or just tell me quickly here how. Thanks. Again thank you - I am trying to config JEdit - I want this as my "goto" editor.

1. How do I toogle the wrap guide on/off? Specifically how - there should be a way. Is the action bar the only way? Please cite how - just this one time for me w/the action bar - another way w/out going into the global config?

2.Right now I use-control the added plugins functionalies from a plugin drop down menu were i have to drill down deep w/the mouse. It's very unwieldy - I want either toggle buttons and/or to add key combo or sometrhing so I could record the actions - I guess I could add it to a marcro and then have a toogle button. How? The drop down menu is "killing" me.

3. The plugin settings are *not* saved when I shut down Jedit - eg. I check that i want buffer tabs (the buffer tab plugin). But when I restartup the changes are not saved - I have to go in to this drop down and reconfig everything - I need a way to save and easily toogle (as I cite above) plugin options and any other changes I make. Same thing - I make want the show whitesapce set my way every time I start - but my previous settings are never saved.

Thank You again,
Lee

Hello,

in the ongoing process to adapt all my work the JEdit
I am also finding some limits though. For example, I'll just execute a buffer with a script engine and the console plug-in does this. But I would like to control, if a COMMAND uses a buffer via TO_BUFFER or just outputs into the console itself.

Is there any way to modify the running buffers properties from the running script?

I just tried:

this.toBuffer = true;

but - even this don't raise any errors - it just does not work. Providing the GUI for this is easy.
Any help would be great!

Thanks so far and best regards,

Manfred

i use jedit for 2 years, and everytime i download the jedit, installing the ftp plugin is always a problem. why it that. i try a few minor already. i think i try everything that north america minor offer. i do not understand why it is so hard to install the ftp plugin after jedit is installed.

can anyone help. i try 10 times already. everytime i download the jedit, this is always the problem?????

I record a marcro and it works OK in the macro drop down menu. I then go to global options, toolbar were I can make a button for the marco - exactly what I need - therefore any action I need can be a toogle button. I usually find a gif I convert to a png button graphic and I have a dsitinct button.

BUT, when I close jedit and reopen it the new buttons are gone. Please help.

Thanks

Hi,

I have been using Jedit as a latex editor for a while. In the latest upgrade of latex tools there is an autocomplete function. I dont like the way this works, for example when typing \item in a document i get a popup saying "no completion". This blocks the keyboard. How can I turn this feature off?

Many thanks,

Olly

As a long time programmer, a high quality text editor is crucial to what I do. I use heaver IDE's (Visual Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans) for a lot of my work, but for various SQL, scripting languages, and file searching, and text file processing, I use a separate dedicated text editor. I've been a long time user of EditPlus and am just now switching over to jEdit.

Overall, I'm very impressed with jEdit. I thought it would be unlikely to beat EditPlus and this did it. However, I'd like to share my thoughts and suggestions.

Pros:
- Cross Platform: Huge advantage. EditPlus is Windows only. jEdit runs on all Java platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris) so I can easily move between platforms.
- Free: I don't mind sending in a donation for a program I use so much, but it's so nice to not need to worry about licensing every copy I install
- Better Plug-in/Scripting/Macro support. By far. Excellent thus far.
- Awesome syntax highlighting for several languages (Java + SQL)

Cons:
- HyperSearch: I like EditPlus's setup much better. I wish the HyperSearch could be displayed in a pane in the main jEdit window rather than in a separate window. I also wish it displayed results as it found them rather than making you wait until the entire search is complete before showing you anything.
- Search/Replace: Regex support is buggy (didn't have time to boil down to simple cast and post, but I saw definite bugs). No multi-line Regex option. How do I replace \n\n with \n (eliminate blank lines)?
- No built-in sort/dedupe. Didn't see a plugin either. Maybe I missed this? This is crucial for a text editor.
- No "column selection". Did I miss this? Very important feature.
- No ability to set "type" of unsaved buffer. Sometimes I typing SQL into a buffer that I don't want to save, but I want syntax highlighting.
- No keyboard shortcut to enable/disable soft word-wrap. I frequently need to turn this on/off. I hate having to navigate the menus to do this.
- Name. I love Java, but this is product really excels as a general purpose text editor rather than a Java specific tool. Couldn't this use a less Java-centric name? Most .NET coworkers would love this tool but be turned off by the name.

As a long time programmer, a high quality text editor is crucial to what I do. I use heaver IDE's (Visual Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans) for a lot of my work, but for various SQL, scripting languages, and file searching, and text file processing, I use a separate dedicated text editor. I've been a long time user of EditPlus and am just now switching over to jEdit.

Overall, I'm very impressed with jEdit. I thought it would be unlikely to beat EditPlus and this did it. However, I'd like to share my thoughts and suggestions.

Pros:
- Cross Platform: Huge advantage. EditPlus is Windows only. jEdit runs on all Java platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris) so I can easily move between platforms.
- Free: I don't mind sending in a donation for a program I use so much, but it's so nice to not need to worry about licensing every copy I install
- Better Plug-in/Scripting/Macro support. By far. Excellent thus far.
- Awesome syntax highlighting for several languages (Java + SQL)

Cons:
- HyperSearch: I like EditPlus's setup much better. I wish the HyperSearch could be displayed in a pane in the main jEdit window rather than in a separate window. I also wish it displayed results as it found them rather than making you wait until the entire search is complete before showing you anything.
- Search/Replace: Regex support is buggy (didn't have time to boil down to simple cast and post, but I saw definite bugs). No multi-line Regex option. How do I replace \n\n with \n (eliminate blank lines)?
- No built-in sort/dedupe. Didn't see a plugin either. Maybe I missed this? This is crucial for a text editor.
- No "column selection". Did I miss this? Very important feature.
- No ability to set "type" of unsaved buffer. Sometimes I typing SQL into a buffer that I don't want to save, but I want syntax highlighting.
- No keyboard shortcut to enable/disable soft word-wrap. I frequently need to turn this on/off. I hate having to navigate the menus to do this.
- Name. I love Java, but this is product really excels as a general purpose text editor rather than a Java specific tool. Couldn't this use a less Java-centric name? Most .NET coworkers would love this tool but be turned off by the name.

Hi,

i just downloaded jEdit on my Ubuntu and wanted to test it. It seems to be a very powerful editor (looking at the preferences) but when i try to create a new file there commes an error message (i'll post it requested) and if i try to load a file nothing happens. Could you please help my working on these problems? I realy would like to use the editor.

Prophet

Hi,

I use jEdit 4.2 Final and I have abbreviations set-up to auto expand when I press spacebar, but using this setting an abbreviation is expanded in a comment too, is it possible to not autoexpand an abbrev in a comment?

Thanks,
Cristian

I want to install dotcomplete on jedit 4.3pre. This depends on anthelper which in turn depends on version 1.4>> of jbrowse.

No worries ... I installed all these plugins and jedit comes back with error saying "anthelper needs 1.4>> version of jbrowse - but it is not installed!!

Hmm - jbrowse 1.5 (which a normal person would believe is greater than version 1.4) is installed in the jars folder and is visible in plugin manager (which again a normal person would suggest it physically exists)- so what the hell is jedit doing??

an example of 9 years project maturity??? ... I dont think so!!

I use jEdit since 4.1, and in the last three years it has become my #1 tool for work and play. The lack of new releases throughout most of 2005 made me fear for the future of this cherished app, so it's very nice to see it back on a steady routine of updates. Like they used to say in videogames, "Special Thanks" to all the jEdit development team!

i am in usa, and i try to download all minor from north america location, all minor can be installed but when i want to intall the ftp, it always come with errors, i try 6 days already i even try other area minors too. i have the same problem everytime i download the software into a computer.

can anyone help to see what kind of thing i may do wrong, i try to netherland one already, i have not tried taiwan as it may have chinese language problem.

any help is welcome

I am trying to make CodeBrowser better, i have found a way to highlight the current function(Tag) in CodeBrowser i would like to submit it, but i am highlighting the tag where the caret is. I want to be able to highlight the current tag even when you scrolldown or up so the visible text will be the current tag, i want to move the caret to the top position of the viewed text if it's a scrolldown and bottom position if it's a scrollup so that way CodeBrowser will highlight the tag where the caret is.

I tried JEditeTextArea.setCaretPosition(position), JEditeTextArea.setCaretMagicPosition(position) with no success, is there another function to move the caret to a line that we want??????

Thx a lot

I've just re-installed Ubuntu at work and opted for the "Option 2 - easy install on some flavours of *nix". This involves adding a couple of lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and installing jEdit with the apt-get command or through the Synaptic Package Manager.

This works great... however it only installs the stable version of jEdit, not the latest version. Is there any way to get the bleeding edge with this method?

Hi,

I program a lot in pascal, and my pascal files have .p and .ph extensions, i added these two extensions in Global Options/Editing/pascal/file name glob, so i have *.{p,ph,pas,dpr,dpk}. My probleme is when i open a .p file it says it's a progress file, so i went to see the extensions of progress and it was *.[piw] i change it to *.{i,w} to avoid confusion, but jEdit still consider my .p files to progress, i found that pop11 had *.{p,p11,pop11} so i removed the p extension and it's *.{p11,pop11}, so anyone have any idea why jEdit still considerint .p files as progress.....

Thx for the help

Is exist gdb plugin for JEdit 4.2 ?
If exist gdb plugin where are you download ?

Thank you !

I seem to be having problems getting jEdit to render fonts properly on a PC (WinXP to be explicit). My preference is the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono fonts which are noted as the top choice elsewhere within this Wiki. On my Linux machine the fonts for jEdit render nice and crisp, but on my PC they are pretty awful -- lots of jaggies, etc. What puzzles me is that the same Bitstream VSM in another app like the venerable old WinEdit looks great. Is there something special you have to do for jEdit on a PC so that the fonts render as clearly as they do in other apps? I live in jEdit on my Linux machine, and would like to be able to do the same on my PC when I have to, but I cannot make jEdit render a font clearly on my PC ...