Nice. I had no idea a product like this existed.

But why? Did associating files with the jedit.bat not work? The bat file basically does exactly what the .lap file seems to do? There's no real reason why you need a .exe file. Plus in the future, if changes are made in the way jEdit is started, those changes would be applied to the .bat file that comes with jEdit. You are now responsible for maintaining your own .exe file.

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Actually, the exe worked but it won't open a file passed to it. I didn't realize the power of the .bat file. My problem is I'm trying to get this browser extension to open using jEdit...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125

This extension allows you to take a textBox (like the one I'm writing this comment with) and pass the text into your favorite browser. The only problem is that this plugin doesn't seem to work when point to the .bat file.

I'd really like to figure out a way to make this work as I use jEdit a lot for web development and use this plugin to save myself a lot of time from having to exit html inside and textbox.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated....

Hi this firefox Add-on is a very nice tip! I just tried it, and for me it works like a charm. I configured the editor as "G:\Tools\jEdit_43pre15\jedit.bat". This Batch has one line:

start "jEdit startup" javaw.exe -Xms64M -Xmx192M -jar "G:\Tools\jEdit_43pre15\jedit.jar" -reuseview %*

Robert

Robert,

Thanks for trying this out. I actually tried this before with the bat file and it failed to bring up the editor. This time it worked fine so I must have had something out of line. Thanks for taking the time to test this out. I use jedit a lot when edit html code from within my CMS control panel. Since the code is inside a database, it's not so easy to open it via a file.

Regards,
Joe

Hi proee, maybe this can be useful to you. I used AutoHotkey scripting language to create the launcher and then its bundled compiler Ahk2Exe to create exe file. You can get AutoHotkey at www.autohotkey.com. I am no programmer, so it is a quite rough code, but you can adjust the paths and compile the launcher yourself: it works quite well for me.
Cheers, tvojeho

;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
;
; Title: jEdit Launcher
; AutoHotkey Version: 1.x
; Language: English
; Platform: Win9x/NT
;
; Script Function: Runs jedit.jar with parameters passed in command line.
; Note: Quotes passed in command line must be escaped by backslash '\'.
; Otherwise they are disregarded in the script.
;
; 1.00.00 -- 2008/10/11
;
;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

#NoTrayIcon

;-- Declare variables
Settings_dir = C:\Program Files\jEdit\jEdit Settings
jEdit_jar = C:\Program Files\jEdit\jedit.jar ; path to jar
EnvGet, DEFAULT_JAVA_HOME, JAVA_HOME ; get from environment variable
; DEFAULT_JAVA_HOME = C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_04 ; or define manually
JAVA_HEAP_INIT_SIZE=32 ; Set jvm heap initial and maximum sizes (in megabytes).
JAVA_HEAP_MAX_SIZE=256
jEdit_exe = "%DEFAULT_JAVA_HOME%\bin\javaw.exe" -Xms%JAVA_HEAP_INIT_SIZE%M -Xmx%JAVA_HEAP_MAX_SIZE%M -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -jar "%jEdit_jar%" -reuseview -settings="%Settings_dir%"

;-- Parameters passed in command line
Cmd_line_parameters = %1% %2% %3% %4% %5% %6% %7% %8% %9% %10%
;-- or use quotes in the script
; Cmd_line_parameters = "%1%" "%2%" "%3%" "%4%" "%5%" "%6%" "%7%" "%8%" "%9%" "%10%"

;-- Run command with parameters from command line
Run, %jEdit_exe% %Cmd_line_parameters%
ExitApp

tvojeho,

Thanks for taking the time to reply to my request. Robert got it working with the bat file and that's all I need. I'm sure your solution is valid as well and will help another person that finds this via Google.

Regards,
Joe