Hi
Here’s my two cents contribution (ok, I’m overrating this):
For invoking jEdit from Ant, irrespective of platform (i.e. not using OS specific code in Ant), it would be nice to invoke jEdit as a bare name, without extension.
Doing so it would try to launch jedit.exe in Windows and the jedit script in other OS (linux/bsd/...). But there's none in the 4.3 build.
For such purpose the Windows exe launcher of jEdit4.1 can be reused.
Here’s the procedure, step by step:
1. First be sure to have jEdit4.1 for Windows installed in the exact location intended for jEdit4.3 (if using other releases, better be sure to uninstall them first);
2. Copy to a backup directory apart the files with extensions exe, dll and .reg.txt, which where placed by the jEdit4.1 installer in the main jEdit directory;
3. Uninstall jEdit4.1;
4. Install jEdit4.3 to the previous location;
5. Copy the files from the backup directory (exe dll ...) to the main jEdit directory - notice that those files don’t have names clashing with the names used for the jEdit4.3 installation;
6. Test running the exe launcher from the command-line, and if necessary answer appropriately their initial questions by browsing to the java bin directory and so on.
I find it very useful to script in ant the editing of very large file sets. Alternatively jEdit can preserve specific work file sets.
Cheers,
Antonio