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Re: [ jEdit-devel ] Reviving jEdit Launcher (for Windows)
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From: Alan E. <ala...@gm...> - 2008-02-28 06:18:01
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I missed having an executable that I could associate with jedit also - it makes it a lot easier to use jedit from eclipse in windows. On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Sebastian Schuberth <ssc...@gm...> wrote: > Hi, > > well, besides such simple things like the additional "Open *.<ext> > with jEdit" entry and the fact that the shell entries get nicely > grouped instead of being added into the "misc. stuff area" at the very > top of the context menu, I simply like to fact to have an exe file > (with a nice icon embedded) to launch jEdit. This makes it easier for > certain applications to use jEdit as the editor, and to have the icon > displayed next to files associated with jEdit. You could probably > archive the same by creating a shortcut to jedit.bat, setting the > shortcut to use the jEdit icon, and then making programs use the > shortcut to launch jEdit, but that does not exactly seem like a clean > solution to me. > > Note I'm not necessarily voting for including jEditLauncher into the > Windows distribution again. I just liked it, but it had a few bugs for > me, so I fixed them (partly, I'm not yet finished) and thought others > might be interested, too. > > -- > Sebastian Schuberth > > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Vampire <Vam...@gm...> wrote: > > > Hi Sebastian, > > > > as every time when this topic comes up, I want to ask again. What is the > > real benefit of the jEdit launcher? If you use the normal windows > > installer currently distributed, you already get the "Open with jEdit" > > functionality and you can also use jEdit from the command line and from > > "Start menu -> run". So what is the point in using the launcher? > > > > Regards, > > Vampire > > > > Sebastian Schuberth schrieb: > > > > > Hi Ollie, > > > > > > thanks for your OK, I've just imported and tagged the last version > > > available from your home page: > > > > > > http://jedit.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/jedit/jEditLauncher/tags/launcher-0-81/ > > > > > > Some of my plans are to replace the scons environment with VS2005 > > > project files, as this removes the dependencies on scons / Python > > > (good for people like me who just want to build the launcher and > > > nothing else), and now that VS2005 Express if free for everybody, this > > > should be okay. > > > > > > Moreover, I plan to add WTL as an SVN external, so developers really > > > would need nothing else than checkout jEditLauncher in order to > > > compile it. > > > > > > Any objections / comments? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------- > > jEdit Developers' List > > jEd...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jedit-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > -- > ----------------------------------------------- > jEdit Developers' List > jEd...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jedit-devel > |