(I know about the background mode.) If JEdit could be faster at startup it would be great. Maybee something to try could be SwingWT at https://sourceforge.net/projects/swingwt.

I am using jEdit not at full screen and fit it's size to the text. So when I open a docking window it reduces my editing window. It would be great if there would be an option to expand docking windows to the outside leaving the editing window untouched.

Thanks
uhuebner

I often have to check the length of a text/variable. In UltraEdit I used to just select the text and it showed the length in the status bar. Can this be implemented?

Thanks
uhuebner

I think that If a feature such as encryption was added to jedit, it would make it that much better. Because I have not found an encryption utility for mac os [ any version ].



The kinds of encryption I am thinking of is 128 bit to 256 bit encryption with a password. [ you can't decrypt something without the password used to encrypt it.].

Right now (as far as I know), jEdit checks the file extension (.c or .java for example) to decide what editing mode to go into. However, both C, Objective-C and C++ all use .h files. And the default is to go into Objective-C. Would it be possible to have jEdit actually check the code (for instance, if there's "class" inside a .h file, it's obviously c++) as well as the extension? This way I won't have to manually change the editing mode (which affects the syntax highlighting).

SciTE has this feature, which is the reverse of "tab indent". With this, I can press backspace once to clear an indentation, instead of pressing it n times (n = tab width). I know the existances of shift-tab and alt-left, but "backspace unindent" can be more efficient in some cases, plus I already get used to it

Is it possible for jEdit to install plugins/macros in '/Library' in OSX? I don't know how to migrate the plugins from one version to the next without just re-installing (slow, even on broadband). Perhaps in '/Library/Application Support/jEdit'? I think that would bed a good path. Anything version specific would either be installed in the application directory or in a folder with the version name.

Hi! I've a DB-dump file of 450 MB that I need to edit. When I open the file JEdit complains of insufficient Java heap memory (I know that I can adjust the heap memory size). I would like JEdit to be able to open files of almost any size without the need to change the Java heap memory size. I think some editors open big files by opening a part of the file. This would be my #2 most wanted feature!
Thannks!
Spooky

Code folding is great, please implement it.
egz. www.jcreator.com --> try this feature...

Dear all,

I recently switched from emacs to jedit with no regret. However, being French and using a qwerty keyboard (for programming), I really miss one emacs feature: iso-accents-mode. This feature seems straightforward and would help thousands of people struggling to find characters such as ß (German), ø (Dane) and ç (French) on their keyboards...

For people frequently typing in an "accented letters language" this emacs thing is much more convenient than the traditional "insert special character" GUI, such as the CharacterMap plugin.

However, if this feature already exist somewhere in a plugin, I will try again to find it on plugin central...

Thanks in advance for your help,

David.

Often I need a core set of files, often depending on the exact task I am working on. Through the course of the day, I may open many extra files, or perhaps work on two or three seperate tasks. It would be nice of I could group a set of documents to a workspace/group/what-have-you, and open all the files in one shot. That way if I get too many open, I can close all files and start from scratch. I can open my config files, my current tasks, or perhaps a set of XML documents.

Not sure if this would be good for a plug in or for the program itself, then again, perhaps this feature exists and I just missed it.

Tom

It would be nice to be able to specify directory locations for modes in the catalog file.

For example I need something like this:

<MODE NAME="interchange" FILE="interchange.xml"
FILE_NAME_GLOB="*.*"
DIRECTORY_NAME_GLOB="S:\*" />

This would instruct JEdit that all files in the directory S:\ and subdirectories thereof should use the interchange format mode.

In this example it would be used for specifying an Interchange shopping cart catalog location. Files used by Interchange can have any number of extensions including .html, .cfg, etc. They are always confined to a specific location so that is where the additional specifier would come in handy.

Thank you for making such a great editor!

Hi,
A feature to cycle back through the buffer history of recently edited files would be great.
e.g. ultra-edit,ms visual studio, komodo etc. hold down ctrl and press tab repeatedly to cycle back through most recently edited files.
e.g. alt-tab in windows to cycle to most recently used application.
Thanks
Michael

If I have:

<product> Cereal ....etc. </product>

and I fold it, I get:

<product> [26 lines]
</product>

It is possible to get something like:

<product>Cereal...[26 lines]

1. Don't show the end tag, it adds no information: more space efficient

2. Do show the 1st line of element/attribute content: "outline" readable when folded

Thanks!

I had just downloaded JEdit. I had seen in JEdit screenshot different layout for main window that include console, file manager and so on. How can I set my window layout? I must download a plugin? and wath plugin I must download? thanks to all

Any one know if it's possible to add a language pack to JEdit?

VB NET support will be a good thing

I would like to see one nice feature in jEdit for PHP-Mode (or generally in all possible for other people). Just a simple code analyzer. Didn´t found it as plugin, yet. It should parse the current buffer for i.e. uninitialized variables (assigning values before initializing it), unused variables (used only on time), scanning statements (wrong operators = instead of == or =< instead of <= and so on), check line ends on : instead of ; (this happens often to "fast writers" like me ) resulting in "parse error" and listing of all functions including parameters for quick navigation (although it can be done by using folding smartly). This is the only big missing point for me against one special commercial PHP-IDE and I won´t miss jEdit anymore after two years and waiting impatiently for 4.2final. Of course, I could setup a PHP-Script for this but programmers are some kind of lazy - you know what I mean...

Hi-

Could Saxan support be added to the XSLT plugin? Currently, the XSLT plugin cannot support XSLT 2.0 b/c it is not using a 2.0 transform engine.

Anyone else out there itching to get XSLT 2.0 working via JEdit?

Thanks,

Eric Everman

(Note - I posted this to some other forum/mailing list, but I've lost track of my earlier post...)

It'd be really nice if a future version of jedit incorporated the 'auto-reload' feature found in e.g. textpad. I've found this really useful as a poor man's tail -f substitute.