Update edit mode list on features page
It should be enough if you take the jedit file of 5.7 and overwrite the one in 5.6
Hey Bobby, I'm sorry I missed your message. 5.7.0 is released since yesterday, so hopefully with that at least the startup problems should also be resolved for you. Let me know whether that works now for you.
And it even comes with DirtyGutter disabled in its plugins menu. To work-around you really have to disable the whole plugin.
jEdit is not hanging for me, and I don't think the problem are the "invalid backslashes". From what I see (I also get this exception on jEdit 5.7.0 with DirtyGutter 0.3b) I'd say the problem is that the plugin considers all buffers to be local, not considering the file system where the file actually coming from.
Update the version number to 5.8pre1
Update for 5.7.0 release
Tagging 5.7.0 for release.