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 ...

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 ...

I have just installed jEdit on a WindowsXp machine. When I attempt to print anything, including a test page with 3 words on it, it hesitates a few moments and then just shuts down (ie - jEdit crashes). I don't see anything in documentation on printing (ie - printer set-up or anything like that)other than a few very basic printer control commands (fonts and stuff like that). The printer is an HP Deskjet 930C with a USB connection.

Any ideas?

Hi,

That would be cool for the plugin manager to :

1. select only plugin available for the current version of jEdit
2. disable all plugin that can't work for the current version of jEdit

I remember the customisable fold handler that didn't work from 4.2 to 4.3...

Also, if we could have an update manager ala Firefox Bon Echo (2.0), that would be the best

(Anyway, I don't know if it's the first thing I would do if I were developping for jEdit)

Thank you

windows 2000 and JEdit 4.2 was installed with various plugins for a few weeks. I then downloaded Python specifically the file ActivePython-2.3.5-236-win32-ix86.msi.

Everytime I clicked the Python intall file to start the install JEdit opened. I restarted my PC moved the python file to another location, tried another download of python - everytime JEdit opened instead of the python installer.

Finally I uninstalled JEdit and clicked the python installer and the install began as expected. What could cause this? I'm reinstalling JEdit now and hope there's no strangeness. Thanks

windows 2000 and JEdit 4.2 was installed with various plugins for a few weeks. I then downloaded Python specifically the file ActivePython-2.3.5-236-win32-ix86.msi.

Everytime I clicked the Python intall file to start the install JEdit opened. I restarted my PC moved the python file to another location, tried another download of python - everytime JEdit opened instead of the python installer.

Finally I uninstalled JEdit and clicked the python installer and the install began as expected. What could cause this? I'm reinstalling JEdit now and hope there's no strangeness. Thanks

I'm trying to install the Console plugin version 4.2.6.4 on JEdit version 4.2 Final.
Using the Plugin Manager, I select the Console plugin, click on Install and I get an I/O error:
"An I/O Error occurred (error in opening zip file)."
I can download the Console zip file directly but it does not appear to contain a .jar file. I'm at a loss as to what to install.

Anyone knows if there is certain c++ project management and building plugin under construction? If not, anyone intrested in making one?