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trouble displaying filenames longer than 8.3
Submitted by vincewebb on Thursday, 22 June, 2006 - 20:05
Hello
I have been happy using JEdit version 4.2 final under windows for some time and been very happy with it.

I recently upgraded the JDK to 1.5.0_07-b03 and now I have a problem. The problem seems to coincide with the new version of JDK but I can't be 100% sure. It still edits files OK and if I open the file via "File - Open - select file" then all is well.

If I open a file via a right click and the "Open with JEdit" option, then
if the filename is longer than the old MSDOS 8.3 format it edits the file OK but displays the filename using Microsoft's dodgy 8.3 with a tilda format.

e.g. I open the file:
common_rep_lib_body.sql
JEdit tells me I am editing a file named:
COMMON~4.SQL

This smells a bit like Windows is passing a dodgy filename to JEdit however it worked OK before and it still works OK when I open the same file using a right click and "Open with" a different application like Notepad.

Any ideas ?
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Re: trouble displaying filenames longer than 8.3
by jendicott on Thu, 22/06/2006 - 20:17
I have been experiencing the same problem. I also recently moved to Java 1.5 from 1.4
 
This is a real pain, it makes
by vincewebb on Thu, 03/08/2006 - 16:42
This is a real pain, it makes JEdit a pain, has anyone got any ideas ?
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