Re: [ jEdit-devel ] jEditLauncher

[Shawn a. M. P. <ma...@ho...>]

Paul Libbrecht wrote:

> I don't get that... you can certainly do this, out of the box!
> The jEdit installer has created a script for you... called jedit with 
> executable bit set. That same executable can be made as an icon and/or 
> an application-executable to open any text-files from Konqueror or 
> Nautilus.... you just need to fiddle into that.
> In case you don't see it working, check the checkbox "run in a 
> terminal" and you'll see some debug message. In principle, there 
> shouldn't be any problems as the java is defined there. It's true I 
> had problems recently in KDE but I haven't investigated. Tells us more 
> of your problem!

Good, my idea here is that the installer could do the fiddling for you.  
I don't use Linux because not everything I use right now is ported over.

> It partially works for me in Gnome and Nautilus (that is, I can't find 
> the root way to change things so that jEdit is presented as a 
> text-editor for any type of text...
>
> Paul 

I don't think that is possible.  A well designed file-system navigator 
would have that feature.
Shwn Pringle