[ jEdit-users ] console plugin puzzle

[Graeme P. <gf...@pa...>]

[ to moderators - sorry for sending this from the wrong email address
initially - I forgot the email address used would matter ]	

Hi

I'm new to JEdit and just trying it for the first time using the latest
JEdit 4.1 release on WinXP.  I have installed several plugins using the
builtin plugin downloader/installer  - including console and error list.

I can't figure out how to 
1. invoke a C++ compiler e.g. GCC, from within JEdit
2. how to direct the error and warning messages to an errorlist

When I select "plugins" from the main menu followed by "console", the
list of items I get is ...
ant   diff   java   javac   jikes  jmk   latex   openjade-HTML/PDF   yap

The help file says I should be able to do
plugins>Console>Console
to open up a console window  -  but there is no "console" option in the
list ( just ant diff ...  )

I can open a console window successfully by installing the console
toolbar on the main JEdit window and I can run commands successfully
with it.  The help file says to run a compiler or interpreter you do
plugins>Console>Compile current buffer
but I have no "compile current buffer" option under console.

Under global options/ console / compile and run  - I see a long list of
"modes" including C and C++ but the compiler list for consists of "ant
diff java ...  " etc and I can see no way of adding a compiler to this
list.

I sometimes want to run 3 different C++ compilers on the same source
file  - is it possible to do this from within JEdit or can a C++ source
file only have one compiler associated with it?


Graeme