Mode Selection

Submitted by gsawyer9 on Friday, 1 May, 2009 - 20:14

How (when) does jEdit determine the mode to be used when editing a file?

My current project has many makefiles named "something.mak." I've set jEdit's makefile mode file name glob to "(*.mak,Makefile,makefile)" but the makefiles are opened in text mode. I can manually change it to makefile mode, but I often forget.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Gary.

How/where did you modify the

by elberry on Fri, 01/05/2009 - 21:39

How/where did you modify the file name glob?

If you modified it in the catalog under your settings directory, I believe you need to copy over the makefile.xml to that same directory.

If you modified it in the catalog under your application directory, you might have to remove the mak entry under the apdl mode definition.



<MODE NAME="apdl"		FILE="apdl.xml"

				FILE_NAME_GLOB="*.{ans,inp,mak,mac}" />

Or move the makefile definition above it.

Also, you might want to change your filename glob to look like the one above.



FILE_NAME_GLOB="*.{mak,Makefile,makefile}"

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Now I'm really confused. In

by gsawyer9 on Fri, 01/05/2009 - 22:34

Now I'm really confused. In my ignorance, I simply changed the "File name glob" value under Utilities->Global Options with the "makefile" mode selected. Does this not change the way files are matched with modes?

Would "*.{mak,Makefile,makefile}" select "Makefile" or "something.Makefile?"

Ah. k. You should be able to

by elberry on Fri, 01/05/2009 - 22:55

Ah. k. You should be able to do that.

I'm not exactly sure what that does, but it appears to override it for that mode.

If that's the case, try removing "mak" under the apdl one.

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Actually, that's the first th

by gsawyer9 on Sat, 02/05/2009 - 18:51

Actually, that's the first thing I did in this exercise, although I didn't think to mention it in my first post. I noticed that my makefiles were being opened in apdl mode (which I don't currently use) so I removed the mak extension from it and added it to the makefile mode. No joy.

I originally thought it would be easy to teach jEdit about our makefiles, but I may need to try to re-train myself. It might be possible.

For me, it works perfectly. P

by Robert Schwenn on Sat, 02/05/2009 - 20:49

For me, it works perfectly. Please check the following points:

1. It may be necessary to manually re-load files, witch have been open in another edit mode before, because the edit mode seems to be saved as a persistent property (at least sometimes).

2. Are You sure that the glob is really set to "*.{mak,Makefile,makefile}"? Note the dot ".". It's not in the original pattern ("*makefile").

Robert

That's the clue I needed!

by gsawyer9 on Sat, 02/05/2009 - 21:26

That's the clue I needed!

I changed my makefile glob to "*{mak,Makefile,makefile}" and it seems to work. (I think it may alias "some-name-ending-in-mak-without-an-extension" as a makefile, but I don't think we currently have any.)

My thanks, gentlemen.

Best,
Gary.

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