Re: [ jEdit-users ] Maintaining jEdit config across platforms

[Pete P. <pet...@cy...>]

Daishi Harada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use jEdit on both Linux and Mac OS X, and was
> wondering if there was a good/recommended way
> of keeping the same configuration across the two
> platforms.
> 
> I've had this problem before, couldn't figure out a
> solution at the time, and have been manually
> maintaining each configuration. I had to deal with
> this again just now, however, and for kicks I tried
> copying over ~/.jedit from one to the other, and
> twiddled some of those things that seem to me
> like they might cause problems, but couldn't get
> it to work.
> 
> Am I missing something? Is there an easy way to keep
> jEdit configs in sync?

Well, going between Mac OS X and Linux should be a bit easier, since you 
don't have to deal with DOS line endings...

The main problem I remember was dealing with paths, since some things, 
like macros and icons have file paths associated with them in the 
property files. On Mac OS X my home is /Users/pete and on Linux it's 
/home/pete - so a simple script to rewrite those might be needed.

Also, if you use plugins that require other things like aspell or ctags, 
the paths to those might be different on each platform as well.

Is there a wiki page for this subject? I'd like to see a page explaining 
what all of the files in ~/.jedit are and do, sort of like this page 
does/did for Mozilla: http://gemal.dk/mozilla/files.html


Pete