[ jEdit-devel ] [ jedit-Bugs-2729908 ] Can only supply eight files on command line

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Bugs item #2729908, was opened at 2009-04-04 05:07
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Category: editor core
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Matthew Gavin (mtgavin)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Can only supply eight files on command line

Initial Comment:
Running linux, jedit 4.3pre16.

I am seeing that jedit will only open the first eight files I supply to it on the command line.  If I supply any more than that, the files after the first eight, are simply not opened.  

I can open as many as I want, using the mouse (directory/file browser), once I am in the editor. Unfortunately I often need to supply a large number of files on the command line.

This behavior did not occur in 4.2.  In 4.2 you can supply as many files as you want on the command line, and they all get opened.  So if I want to open more than 8 files on the command line, I use 4.2.

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>Comment By: Matthew Gavin (mtgavin)
Date: 2009-08-02 04:29

Message:
After reading Dennis post, dated 2009-07-26 15:19, and shlomy: you are
right, the problem was in my jedit script, very similar to what Dennis
described.  

Somehow my jedit invocation script (looks very similar to Dennis' post)
changed from 4.2 to 4.3, to only call out 9 params ($1...$9) in the 4.3
version.  This 4.3 version did not use the $@ parameter.  I would not have
modified that so I think this may bear some investigation on your end, as
to how that could have happened. I suspect that the 4,3 package I
downloaded may have had this mod in it. 

So please take a look at the jedit invocation script supplied by your
linux install tarball, and double-check  that it is still using $@. Once
you clarify that you can close this. Thanks for the help.

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Comment By: Shlomy Reinstein (shlomy)
Date: 2009-07-26 18:36

Message:
If jEdit only opens 8 files from the command-line, it's probably due to the
batch file (or alias?) named 'jedit'. Please add the contents of this alias
/ batch file.
In Linux you can usually get this using: cat `which jedit`


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Comment By: Daniel Johnson (delvinj)
Date: 2009-07-26 15:32

Message:
Works fine for me, windows XP.  

Here is the contents of the batch file I use:
start /b javaw -cp "C:\Documents and
Settings\djohnson\workspace\jEdit\build\jedit.jar;C:\jEdit\build\looks.jar"
-Xmx256M org.gjt.sp.jedit.jEdit -reuseview %*

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Comment By: Dennis Sheil (dennis_sheil)
Date: 2009-07-26 15:19

Message:
I have been having trouble dupicating the problem.  mtgavin, what operating
system are you running on?  I am running Linux, more specifically the
deltah version of Gnewsense, which is heavily based on Ubuntu Hardy.  My
shell is bash 3.2.33.  With both 4.3.pre13 and 4.3.pre18, I can load more
than eight files from the command line, with either method you mention,
either wildcard or explicitly.  If you're running on a UNIX, what shell are
you using?  I assume you're not running this from a MacOS X command line or
an MS-DOS prompt or the like.  Since you're running this as "jedit" and not
"java -jar jedit.jar", I assume you're using the jedit installed by the OS
flavor's package.  When I do a "which jedit" it shows /usr/bin/jedit as my
shell script, when I do a "tail -1 /usr/bin/jedit" it says

exec $JAVA -Xms${JAVA_HEAP_INIT_SIZE}M -Xmx${JAVA_HEAP_MAX_SIZE}M -jar
/usr/share/jedit/jedit.jar -reuseview "$@" &

That "$@" at the end means pass all arguments passed to this shell script,
which is part of what allows me to load 9, 10, 11 files from the command
line.


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Comment By: Matthew Gavin (mtgavin)
Date: 2009-04-04 15:59

Message:
Nothing out of the ordinary (I don't think, anyway.)

jedit <file1> <file2> <file3>..... <file_n>

I also do stuff like 'jedit *.txt'  so the wildcrad matches a (potentially
large) number of text files..

Neither one will load anything more than the first eight files specified.

This is consistent behavior with 4.3pre16 - happens to me EVERY time - you
should be able to reproduce this quickly. If you are not able to reproduce
this quickly then this could be difficult to isolate. Again, this worked
flawlessly with 4.2.

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Comment By: Shlomy Reinstein (shlomy)
Date: 2009-04-04 14:06

Message:
What is the command-line that you use to launch jEdit with a specified list
of files?

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