Re: [ jEdit-users ] jEdit on CD

[Todd O'B. <tod...@ma...>]

On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 09:51  PM, Brad Mace wrote:

> Plugin installation is trivial, so you can do it however you want.  
> The jars just need to end up in $JEDIT_HOME/jars or 
> $USER_HOME/.jedit/jars.  For all the other settings, configure jEdit 
> the way you want and then put the $USER_HOME/.jedit/properties on the 
> cd and have the students put it in their own $USER_HOME/.jedit/ 
> directory after they run the installer.
>
OK. Since they're likely to be running everything from Windows 98 
onward, and possibly might be running Linux or Mac OS X, is there any 
reasonable way to get things in the right spots that doesn't involve 
multi-faceted instructions that are easy to confuse? From what I can 
tell, every version of Windows puts the user's home directory in a 
slightly different spot. Also, is there a standard place where 
$JEDIT_HOME will end up, and will they have to do anything special to 
be able to copy files there?

> Todd O'Bryan wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to make a jEdit install CD for my high school students, 
>> some of whom don't have broadband internet connections.
>>
>> What's the easiest way (easiest = least work on their part to get 
>> things installed in the right spot and up and running quickly) to 
>> include things like:
>>
>> plugins I'd like them to have
>> a default color scheme that I like
>> built-in shortcuts
>>     (I like to have JCompiler automatically save when you choose to 
>> compile the current file, and
>>     I like CTRL-ALT-C as a shortcut for Compile Current Buffer)
>> anything else people might think would be useful
>>
>> At our school we have about 180 programming students, so if even one 
>> thing goes wrong with each of them, hours of my life are spent 
>> cleaning up the mess. Better to head it off before it happens.
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