This was posted to jEdit-users but I never saw it show up, so is being re-
submitted it here.

I'm using jEdit 4.3.1 under Mac OS X.6.2 (Snow Leopard).

I recorded a macro to reformat a paragraph differently from how the re-
gular Format macro does it. This 'Reformat' macro is supposed to reformat
only from the line containing the cursor, put two spaces (instead of one)
after the sentence-end punctuation, and finally place itself at the be-
ginning of the next paragraph.

When recorded, it does exactly this, but when run as a macro it doesn't.

Here's what happens. Suppose I have 3 paragraphs, 1, 2, and 3, and the
cursor is somewhere in para 1. Then Reformat

- separates sentences in the region between the cursor and the end of
para 1 with two spaces,

- joins para 1 and para 2 by deleting the empty line separating them
(but without reformatting para 2), and

- if the cursor was on the 1st line of para 1, it moves it to the begin-
ning of that line; if the cursor is below the 1st line of para 1, it
places it at the beginning of para 3.

Here is the macro:

textArea.goToStartOfLine(false);
textArea.insertEnterAndIndent();
textArea.goToNextParagraph(true);
textArea.goToPrevLine(true);
SearchAndReplace.setSearchString(". ");
SearchAndReplace.setReplaceString(".. ");
SearchAndReplace.setBeanShellReplace(false);
SearchAndReplace.setIgnoreCase(false);
SearchAndReplace.setRegexp(false);
SearchAndReplace.replace(view);
SearchAndReplace.setSearchString("? ");
SearchAndReplace.setReplaceString("?? ");
SearchAndReplace.setBeanShellReplace(false);
SearchAndReplace.setIgnoreCase(false);
SearchAndReplace.setRegexp(false);
SearchAndReplace.replace(view);
textArea.formatParagraph();
textArea.goToPrevParagraph(false);
textArea.goToNextParagraph(false);
textArea.goToNextParagraph(true);
textArea.goToPrevLine(true);
SearchAndReplace.setSearchString("?? ");
SearchAndReplace.setReplaceString("? ");
SearchAndReplace.setBeanShellReplace(false);
SearchAndReplace.setIgnoreCase(false);
SearchAndReplace.setRegexp(false);
SearchAndReplace.replace(view);
SearchAndReplace.setSearchString(".. ");
SearchAndReplace.setReplaceString(". ");
SearchAndReplace.setBeanShellReplace(false);
SearchAndReplace.setIgnoreCase(false);
SearchAndReplace.setRegexp(false);
SearchAndReplace.replace(view);
textArea.goToPrevParagraph(false);
textArea.goToNextParagraph(false);
textArea.backspace();
textArea.goToNextParagraph(false);

Any suggestions as to why the altered behavior? Thanks.

- Dushan Mitrovich

What exactly is the *unfocused* gutter border (configurable in GlobalOptions/jEdit/Gutter)? So far, I have only seen the colouring for the *focused* gutter border (i.e. the border between gutter and text area).

Ronald

I'm trying to change my existing macro of uppercasing keywords to use exactly the case that is given by the Keyword-XML file, e.g. gettext -> getText instead of GETTEXT.
I get the next token bei using Token.next. But I only get the representation in my TextArea. How can I retrieve the corresponding original Keyword as given by the XML file?

Thanks
uhuebner

I am using jEdit now for a couple of years. I started using it on Windows and now i moved over to MacOS X.

I used it with Mac OS X 10.5 and now 10.6. But since i am moved from Windows to Mac i observed a very interesting behaviour with the keyboard shortcuts for Copy and Paste.

In the Text Area (i hope my naming for all the components are correct) the Copy and Paste shortcuts are Cmd+C and Cmd+V ... which is exactly as it is used in all Mac-Applications. But all the poup-windows (like Search and Replace, Global Options, ...) The text fields do not react on this shortcuts. They use the shortcut i remember from the Windows version ... Ctrl+C and Crtl+V.

In my opinion this looks a bit confusing for me as i do not leave the Application but the shortcut is different on every window.
Is there any way to change this somehow inconsistent shortcuts?

Thanks.

I want to use jEdit as external editor for my e-mail client. When invoking an external editor my e-mail client creates a temporary file and then opens the editor with that file as the argument. Then when I am finished editing I need to close the editor to notify the parent process that I am done. However since I almost always have jEdit open I don't want to close it in full (I might have 5-10 other buffers open) when I am done writing my e-mail, just close the current buffer.

What I need is a switch to jEdit that starts a separate process, disconnected from the current running instance of jEdit. I have looked at the man page and seen -wait, -newview, -newplainview and other switches but no one seems to do what I need. Have I missed something or is this a missing feature I should report?

Thanks

Hello,

Two items. First and most important, I had to create a new site identity in order to log in, after I reset the theme of my old account to one of the items in the 'theme's option list. That 'theme' was completely broken, a set of template tags that hooked into nothing. So there was no longer any way for me to do anything on the site, including reset the theme, once logged in. I did email someone identified as being in charge of community development, but nothing happened. This is really poor on two fronts. No one to contact when there are problems, and (IMO) worse, a half-assed deployment of Drupal that includes elements that are not implemented. It seems that it's caveat emptor if you are fiddling around with your account settings.

The second item is that I tried to upload an 'avatar' picture, and that feature seems broken, too. At least, I uploaded a picture (74x85 png) and after saving settings, the avatar setting reverted to 'no file chosen.'

C'mon guys. I know everybody has a real job, but it's just common courtesy and sense to disable functions that you don't want to mess around with. Purge the themes list or disable it altogether. It's not like it would hurt my feelings if I was stuck with the default site look. A broken "feature" is worse than no feature at all.

Thanks.

mp

I like the idea of jEdit and it really appeals to me, especially the portability. Is there any way for me to make it a simple executable jar file that i can run on any java-compatible platform? I want to be able to place it in my external hard drive so if i ever need to borrow a laptop, i can simply plug my hard drive in and start coding. I scanned the Install.java file and saw that every installation checks the current OS and installs based on that. Is there anyway to skip the install part and just compile an executable jar?

Hi all!
I started using jedit a few weeks ago and I have couple of questions:

1) After making rectangular selection of text, how can I move text block left, right up or down. This feature would be very useful to change indentation of the code section

2) Can I force hypersearch to highlight the words it found within the buffers ?

3) Whenever I use multiple vncviews, jedit will only start in the vncview that I started first. Whenever I try to execute jedit in the other view, new jedit window pops up in the first vncview.

4) How can I make hypersearch bar to search within multiple buffers. Hypersearch bar searches only within current buffer, I need to pop the dialog to search multiple buffer. Having another check box next to the bar that switches between current buffer and multiple buffers would be very nice.

5) Hypersearch bar keeps the search history. It keeps 20 past searches. Does the tool allow to increase the size of this history buffer?

So i am leaning java with jedit. and in PC, at the bottom, there is a console and i type "javac" and "java" to compile and run java program. but now im have a mac, but there is no console button, and i dont know how to compile it. can anyone help me?

Hi,

I just upgraded to a new Intel Core i7 machine running Windows7 64 bit and reinstalled jEdit.

However, although jEdit starts and runs, I find that if I open a file to edit and then make changes
I am unable to save the file, getting instead a

Cannot save: java.io.IOException Rename failed error.

Since there seems to nothing magical about the file itself (generated text from a Matlab program that can be opened in other text editors and the same behavior occurs when attempting to edit other
txt files), I am inclined to believe that I may have some time of permission error or User Account error going on here that may resulted from settings during my installation in the windows 7 environment.

Curiously, the file name when given is surrounded by # signs rather than the simple string in the error message.

ie:

C:\...\Morphometrics\Ves_iso.nts:
leads to
Cannot save: java.io.IOException: Rename failed: C:\...\Morphometrics\#Ves_iso.nts#save#

Not sure if this is a clue as to what might be failing, but it does suggest something odd that I don't understand that may be related to the problem.

Has anyone else experienced a similar problem and might someone be able to offer and explanation as to the possible nature of this problem and suggestions for a fix?

Thank you.

Stuart

Hi,

Is there a way to bind a key to Next Recent Buffer and Previous Recent Buffer?

There's the "Go to Recent Buffer" available (which toggles between the last two buffers), but I'm looking for functionality along the lines of Eclipse, where the buffers are in "most recently viewed order". I'd like to be able to iterate up/down among them with a keybinding.

Thanks,

Todd

Hello, I'm just wondering if jEdit have the function to connect to a server via sFTP, then do all the work in sudo mode?

Right now I have to sFTP client to connect to server, use sudo with all the command including vi.

Please help. Thanks.

JEdit has some really nice syntax highlighting, e.g. for HTML and XML.

Occasionally I'd like to paste a snippet from jEdit into MS Word, unfortunately the format of the text is lost.

Is there a way, e.g. with a plugin, to get format information into Windows clipboard (I guess this would be Rich Text)?

Thanks,
Juergen

Hello, I'm hoping someone else can reproduce this frustrating problem that I experience 10 times a day. (PS I love JEdit and use it 8 hours a day).

Windows XP, Jedit 4.3.1
Plugin: Console 4.4.1 + ErrorList 1.8

I've implemented Error Patterns in Console to find errors from my c-compiler command line output. Works great. When compile is done, the error list plugin pops up with all the warnings / errors that I can click on to jump me to the code in question.

Problem: In the command window I type my build command and say it finishes with no errors or warnings. So I want to switch to a different directory (with a "cd" command) and run build again. Unfortunately, after I press the enter key after my first "cd" command, the focus suddenly jumps to the source window. I type very fast so I end up typing text into some random location in the source code.

Sounds trivial, but it happens again and again and again.

I've disabled "Auto-refocus on the text area" in the error list plugin, but that doesn't help.

Thoughts?

Many thanks

Steve

Hi,

Since a few days, I can't re-use jEdit view to open a file. My OS is Windows XP.

this command...

start "jEdit startup" "C:\WINDOWS\system32\javaw.exe" -Xmx192M -jar "C:\Program Files\jEdit\jedit.jar" -reuseview a-file.txt

...always launch a new jEdit instance.

I did the same thing during many months without problems. I haven't updated my jEdit installation, nor my JRE.

Can anyone help please?

Hi All,

I'm a total non-programmer so bear with me

I would love to be able to open/save to google docs (via a URL or ideally getting the doc list from google to choose file from within jEdit)?
I had a short play with python + gdata (docList?) and it seemed straight forward.

I hope that would give me some sort of syntax highlighting for google docs.


Cheers!

Hi,

A long-time jEdit user but first-time poster here.

I tried to use jEdit to open a large data file which caused it to hang. jEdit now hangs every time I use the standard start-up batch file (start "jEdit startup" "C:\WINDOWS\system32\javaw.exe" -Xmx192M -jar "C:\Program Files\jEdit\jedit.jar" -reuseview %*) unless I append '-nosettings -norestore'. Just appending '-nosettings' or '-norestore' doesn't fix the problem.

I need to remove this filename from the files jEdit will try and open - anyone know how to do this?

Thanks,

Julian

I have set my global options like this:

Tab Width: 4
Soft Tabs: checked

When I press the Tab character, the text is intended to the next multiple of 4 characters, and the intending is done by inserting spaces. This is OK.

When I however open a file which already containins tabs, these settings cause jedit to display the text alsoe tabulated to a multiple of 4, but there is no visual clue that we have a tab character (it looks not different from spaces).

What I would like, however, is the following behaviour:

- If the text contains "hard tabs", they should be displayed either using some special (rarely used) character - as most text editors do - or by using a different background colour - which I would prefer.

- In addition, I would like to set up a different tab width for hard tabs (for instance, 8 characters).

Is this possible with jEdit?

Opening a file via the context-menu of the explorer does not work anymore under Win7 (x64), although the associated entry in the registration for the context-menu:
HKCR\*\shell\Open with jEdit\Command
with the content
"C:\Windows\system32\javaw.exe" -Xmx192M -jar "C:\Program Files\jEdit\jedit.jar" -reuseview "%1"
uses correct paths.

Amazing workaround:
Create the file "C:\Temp\JEditStart.bat" with the line
"C:\Program Files\jEdit\jedit.jar" -reuseview %1
And create a registration key
HKCR\*\shell\Open via JEditStart\Command
with the content
"C:\Temp\JEditStart.bat" "%1"
This will do the job.

My first suspicion was, that the tcp/ip-traffic between the jEdit-client and the server could be causal and be blocked by the windows-firewall. So i allowed "C:\Windows\system32\javaw.exe" for internal and external traffic, but nothing changed.

Any ideas to fix/enable the original context-menu-item "Open with jEdit"?

Thank you!
Hans

So, I'm trying to load jedit from the command line and redirect the cursor to a line number.
I copy my test text file readme.txt to the HD root, and do from the jEdit folder:

jedit "c:\readme.txt" +line:2

Works like a charm, cursor is right there on second line. Then I create a directory named "a a" at the root, move the readme, and do:

jedit "c:\a a\readme.txt" +line:4

Nope, still on line 2. Tried fidling with the batch file with no luck.
Any ideas ?