[ jEdit-users ] Re: Feature suggestion

[Vance G. <glo...@co...>]

Thanks everyone for your help with this.  BufferTabs does exactly what I 
wanted.
I installed a group of other plug-ins including Code2HTML, CodeLint, 
JBrowse, JEditCVS and JTA.  I haven't gotten to play with all of them 
yet, but JBrowse is great.  Also, I was very impressed with the plug-in 
manager and how transparent it was to install the plug-ins.
I am an old emacs user and I loved the way that emacs was extended in 
all kinds of interesting ways.  It looks like JEdit is well on its way 
toward equalling emacs in that regard.  There are several good 
programmer's editors for Windows (most not open-source), but these days 
I'm running Solaris.  JEdit is head and shoulders better than anything I 
have seen for Solaris/Linux.

Another feature I am interesting in is having buttons on the toolbar 
that will comment/uncomment selected lines of text putting the current 
language's comment character ("//" for C++/Java, "#" for Perl, etc.) in 
the first column.  I created an extension DLL for Codewright that did 
this a few years ago, and recent versions of VisualStudio have the same 
feature.  It looks pretty straightforward to write a macro to do this, 
but I'm not sure about creating a toolbar button and binding the macro 
to it.  I've been through the help file and do not see a way of doing 
this.  Can I do this by writing a plug-in?  Is my only option to create 
my own dockable toolbar in a plug-in with the buttons I want?

P.S., Please let me know if this is the right forum for this question.  
I've been reading jedit-devel, but they seem focused on the internal 
features and bugs of the new version of jEdit.

-Vance

Rick Reumann wrote:

> Anthony Eden wrote:
>
>> <snip> While doing that also take a look at all of the plugins which 
>> can be used to enhance jEdit.
>
>
>
> Yea Vance, once you look at some of the plugins available you'll even 
> be more blown away by how great this editor is:)