Re: [ jEdit-devel ] shipping swt.jar as a plugin

[Alan E. <ala...@gm...>]

I was mistaken. You can override a plugin in your settings directory ALSO.
So I have a newer QuickNotePad.jar in my ~/.jedit/jars than the one in my
$JEDIT_INSTALL_DIR/jars directory and it is enabled.


On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Alan Ezust <ala...@gm...> wrote:

> If a plugin is installed in the system directory and is updated from
> Plugin Manager, the newer version will replace the older one in the same
> place (provided you have write permissions).
> Otherwise the update will probably fail. I just tested this with
> QuickNotePad.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Eric Le Lay <
> ker...@us...> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to override a system plugin from the settings directory?
>> If jEdit is installed by the system, requiring root privileges to
>> update plugins shipped with the installer could prove cumbersome...
>>
>
>