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jedit always starts 2 instances
Submitted by audrey on Wednesday, 13 September, 2006 - 04:26
jEdit 4.2, Fedora 4, j2sdk1.4.2_08

Just in the past couple of days, every tim i launch jEdit, i get 2 instances starting. FWIW, normally, i'll launch jEdit from the panel, but i think this began when i invoked jEdit on a file from the CLI (which i'm sure i've done many times before, in any case). I'm stumped and have no idea where to even begin looking for the cause of this (well, here, i suppose). I haven't installed anything recently, and i've been using jEit for months now with no problems.

Both instances show the same files open.

Also, the "Untitled-1" file that normally shows up when jEdit is launched doesn't disappear once some other file is opened. I guess that's because the other instance has a copy open, as well.

Any ideas?

ps: the "Forum" select widget for the topic post form is b0rked in Firefox1.5/linux. It's about one charcter wide.
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views, not instances
by Robert Schwenn on Wed, 13/09/2006 - 20:43
jedit normally doesn't start more than one instance - but one ore more VIEWS, that contain the same buffers (but of course different buffers can be active, splitting can be different...). At startup jedit opens all views, that were open the last time jedit has been closed.

So, to get only one view at startup, simply close one of the two views (View->Close View).

Robert
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