I miss some feature of HomeSite - "html table generator". It is button,.. when used, I can "draw" table, set aligning, spacing etc. Then it generates XHTML code to current buffer. Really helpfull feature

I use implicit folding a lot and I find it quite frustrating not to be able to navigate in the files using them. This could provide code browsing for any file type and I don't think it is very complicated to do.

I am using jEdit on Windows to check and edit files and scripts on an HP-UX server. This all works almost perfect, but if I want to look who's the owner or what is the modification time of a file, I have to switch to Reflection.

It would help me a lot if owner and timestamp would be displayed in the FTP file list.

It would be great if there was an option to have word completion work across all open buffers, rather than just the current one. For example, if I have a C++ header file and am working in the .cpp file, it would be nice to be able to still have completions work from the .h.

This kind of works if you open up multiple views (the completion will be drawn from all buffers currently in views), but especially for languages that lack good code completion in jEdit (i.e., most non-Java languages), the more extensive word completion would be a great boon.

So...when is 5.0 coming?

Current engine of syntax highlighting is great!
There is just one snag...
Theoretically I want ability to define of own token types (colors) and parser rules in mode files like in Vim.

Is this feature?

I like Jedit a lot, but I keep having trouble with the indenting. In perl, the indenting code simply does not seem to understand situations when a statement is being continued on the next line. In these cases, there should be some extra-indent (e.g. one additional indent level), but Jedit does not do that.
Deep indent does not work correctly either because it will indent way too deep in many situations.

It would really be great if this would work like in other editors, e.g. (x)emacs, where the indenter actually knows about the syntax of the language to indent and acts accordingly.

Is there a way to replace the default indenting by a plugin that would try to do it more intelligently?

I think it'd be nice to have an "automatic" update feature(either built-in or through plugin) for plugin management. When the Jedit finishes loading, a message box shows up asking user if he/she would like to update their plugin automatically without going through "Plugin Management=>Update" menu everytime.

Oh yeah, it'd be even better if we could turn that auto update on and off through "Global Options" for some people can't afford to have JEdit checking for update site everytime JEdit loads.

I have to write programs with a lot of strings written in other scripts like cyrillic, japanese and so forth. I can use the input method editors of MAC, PC or Linux, but for typing IPA or the Chinese transcription Pinyin there is no input method editor.

It would be a very good to have such a user configurable plugin for jEdit. I don't know whether it is possible to write a plugin which runs between key event and text area but I guess.

sugestions:
- via plugin option you can create different key mapping tables
- you can choose your key mapping by shortcut
- the key mapping table is saved as normal utf8 file
- it should be possible not only to have a 1:1 mapping but also n:m mapping, i.e. I write e.g. 'shi' and the plugin insert the Japanese character 'shi'
- I don't know whether it is possible but it would be very nice: If I type a 'A' a popup window appears and I can choose which 'A' I want to insert the Latin, Greek, Russian, etc. if there are more thna one entry for 'A' in the mapping table.

I installed the plugin 'Accents' and I was inspired by it.

I can try to write this plugin by myself but on one hand I haven't a deep insight into the jedit classes and on the other hand I havn't enough time. But at least I would help!

Thanks in advance

Hans

Hi All,

I'm a Perl developer and use ########## lines to cut my code into pieces or make things more visible.

Unfortunately, the template plugin rips out these lines as they start with ## and are therefore a vm comment.

It would thus be cool to have a directive to not parse some characters.

E.g.:

#noparse=#####################################################################

Thanks,
Sven

For people who get stuck doing search/replace in HTML oftentimes, what you are searching for is multiple lines of text. Also, you tend to want to replace with multiple lines of text. Here is an example:

Search:
<table width="100%">
<tr><td>
Hello World
</tr></td>
</table>

Replace:
<table width="100%" class="somestyle">
<tr><td class="hello">
Hello
</tr></td>
<tr><td class="world">
World
</tr></td>
</table>

In other words, instead of using a text field, an option to use a text area for multiple lines would be great.

Furthermore, an option to ignore whitespace differences in the the search string would be great!. For example these would both match when I searched for Hello World!:

Search Matches:
Hello Wo
rld

Search Matches:
Hello World

You could of course use a regular expression for this. However, when search/replacing large amounts of multi-line text with HTML and other weird characters, escaping all the special characters for a regular expression usage would really suck and take a long time. A simple "ignore whitespace difference" checkbox would be much nicer.

My two cents!

Mike

I'm using InfoViewer to view HTML page in browser. But it is always necessary to save file.
Is it possible to make same option to view edited buffer withnout saving (like in HomeSite)?

well this is it:
I work on a windows based machine that connects to a unix machine. I like Jedit very very much. but anything i write has to be sent to the unix machine to be compiled. and then run. but if i save anything in windows format then the unix compliler gets very stroppy.

so im stuck either using the vi editor (no thanks) over a terminal or some other fancy windows editor that lets me save to unix file format. BUT... i really really (perhaps love) jedit... so please put this in a plugin or the program!

thanks

This is a minor thing, and not too much of a hassel to deal with, but it seems to me that if a buffer, which is untitled and zero size is closed, you should not be prompted to save. This is indeed how it works if the untitled buffer was never modified, but not how it works if the said buffer has ever changed.

For example. Open up a new buffer. Add some text. Delete all text. Close buffer. Now you are prompted about save, even though buffer is empty and unnamed.

This comes up frequently for me because I often use jEdit to do text manipulations for other programs (such as a the nice search/replace using regexp), or for deleting columns of text for another app, running a regexp search, etc.

I searched extensively for an option / a possibility to turnoff the gutter in buffers completely. But I did not find one. Since I do not use any of the functions the gutter offers I would rather see one more column of text (especially when multiple buffers are open).

cu,
dwoakee.

I would like the scrollbars (especially the horizontal scrollbar) to (individually) disappear when the text actually fits horizontally or vertically into the buffer. This provides about one more column and line of text and is especially helpful when you have more than one buffer open. I always like to see as much text as possible without having to scroll.

cu,
dwoakee.

i'd like to request a plugin for resin/j2ee development. if there is one already, could somebody tell me what it's called? thanks

Glad to see the release and love it, as always. Any thoughts on what is next, timing, etc?

Dear JEdit team,

working a lot with JEdit using block copy and paste i miss a very useful feature, some other editors offer. So at the moment it's hard for me to change to JEdit completely even though i wish to do this.

With JEdit we need to select a block using the ctrl-key, count the number of the selected lines in the block, select the same number of lines in the target area and insert the block (ctrl-v). This is very hard for large blocks with many lines, expecially because the statusline does not show the number of the selected lines.

It would be very useful to be able to paste the selected block into the target area only by setting the cursor to the upper left corner of the target and pressing ctrl-v.

An example to show my problem:
Assume the block of 'X' should be copied between 'c' and 'd' (should be read with fixed font)

aaaaa bbbbbbbbb
aXXXa cccdddeee
aXXXa f
aXXXa ggghhhiii
aaaaa jjjjjjjjj

The intuitive way is to select the block of 'X', press ctrl-c, move the cursor between 'c' and 'd' and press crtl-v to get

aaaaa bbbbbbbbb
aXXXa cccXXXdddeee
aXXXa f XXX
aXXXa gggXXXhhhiii
aXXXa jjjjjjjjj

At the moment the above procedure leads to

aaaaa bbbbbbbbb
axxxa cccXXX
XXX
XXXdddeee
axxxa f
axxxa ggghhhiii
aaaaa jjjjjjjjj

I hope you agree with my request. Is there a possibility to implement this?

I appreciate your great work coding one of the best editors found in the net.
Thanks you all.

Yours
Hans Bauer

Dear JEdit team,

working a lot with JEdit using block copy and paste i miss a very useful feature, some other editors offer. So at the moment it's hard for me to change to JEdit completely even though i wish to do this.

With JEdit we need to select a block using the ctrl-key, count the number of the selected lines in the block, select the same number of lines in the target area and insert the block (ctrl-v). This is very hard for large blocks with many lines, expecially because the statusline does not show the number of the selected lines.

It would be very useful to be able to paste the selected block into the target area only by setting the cursor to the upper left corner of the target and pressing ctrl-v.

An example to show my problem:
Assume the block of 'X' should be copied between 'c' and 'd' (should be read with fixed font)

aaaaa bbbbbbbbb
aXXXa cccdddeee
aXXXa f
aXXXa ggghhhiii
aaaaa jjjjjjjjj

The intuitive way is to select the block of 'X', press ctrl-c, move the cursor between 'c' and 'd' and press crtl-v to get

aaaaa bbbbbbbbb
aXXXa cccXXXdddeee
aXXXa f XXX
aXXXa gggXXXhhhiii
aXXXa jjjjjjjjj

At the moment the above procedure leads to

aaaaa bbbbbbbbb
axxxa cccXXX
XXX
XXXdddeee
axxxa f
axxxa ggghhhiii
aaaaa jjjjjjjjj

I hope you agree with my request. Is there a possibility to implement this?

I appreciate your great work coding one of the best editors found in the net.
Thanks you all.

Yours
Hans Bauer

I'm really disappointed, I'm just discovering this fantastic tool and the third button paste wont do anything !

(I mean by that when you select some text in a console for example and click the third button anywhere else: it pastes usually the selection.) Everywhere but not on jedit.

thanks
jobano@linux-fan.com