[ jEdit-users ] Getting command line working on OS X Lion

[Tai T. <ta...@pi...>]

Hi all,

Over the past 2-3 years, I've been flirting with many different editors on OS X (Textmate, Espresso, vim, Sublime Edit, the latest version of BBedit). They all have their strengths and weaknesses, but I made the switch back to jEdit (my first love) and I want to say "thank you" to the community for continuing to support this application. 

I've been using the daily builds of jEdit 5.0pr1 (on OS X 10.7.3, java version "1.6.0_29") and I've been configuring it for the past few days.

I can't seem to get command line integration working in OS X.  

What I want to do is type in
> jedit filename.xyz
and have jEdit open the file (and use the options as documented in http://jedit.org/users-guide/cli-usage.html).

I've googled, and I've tried creating a symbolic link in /usr/bin to "/Applications/jEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/jedit", but when I try to open jEdit using the terminal app, I get this error:

> JavaAppLauncher Error] CFBundleCopyResourceURL() failed loading MRJApp.properties file
> [JavaAppLauncher Error] CFBundleCopyResourceURL() failed while getting Resource/Java directory
> [LaunchRunner Error] No main class specified
> [JavaAppLauncher Error] CallStaticVoidMethod() threw an exception
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
>      at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.run(LaunchRunner.java:113)
>      at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.callMain(LaunchRunner.java:51)
>      at apple.launcher.JavaApplicationLauncher.main(JavaApplicationLauncher.java:61)

Most of the instructions for OS X command line integration seem out-of-date.  They often refer to "/Applications/jEdit/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub". This is now located in "/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Resources/MacOS/"

Thanks in advance,

Tai