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Feature Requests item #2555956, was opened at 2009-02-01 13:04 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by ezust You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350588&aid=2555956&group_id=588 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Closed Resolution: Accepted Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Robert Schwenn (rschwenn) Assigned to: Shlomy Reinstein (shlomy) Summary: Show presence of jedit server Initial Comment: jEdit should provide some GUI for the user to check whether or not jEdit is currently using a server. And it would be of special interest if it runs in background mode. Maybe it can be part of the help -> about, which shows the jEdit version and Java version. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Alan Ezust (ezust) Date: 2009-02-14 08:26 Message: I think my definition of "server mode" is different from yours. Which is not to say that mine is right, just that I think of it differently. When I use the windows installer, I have an option of installing the "jedit server" on windows startup. When that is running, then jEdit has a server process without any View, and subsequent startings of jEdit are very fast. Under that case, I would expect to see "server mode" indicated when I do "about jEdit". When I start up a new jEdit process and it takes a while to start, then I would say that the "server" is not running then, because it had to create a new process to start itself. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Shlomy Reinstein (shlomy) Date: 2009-02-13 21:44 Message: The default mode - if you don't specify any related options on the command-line - is to run in server mode. All jEdit launches in server mode use the same edit-server - i.e. same process - so once you have one jEdit instance running, you save the time of jEdit startup in subsequent launches. Then you can use "-reuseview" to reuse the existing view (if exists) or not use it to have the server open a new view. So basically, if jEdit is running in server mode, it means that if you now try to launch another instance, it will use the existing jEdit process. If you also specify '-background', then when you close the last view the server will be left running (although there are no windows), and also subsequent launches will use the server and will eliminate the startup time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Alan Ezust (ezust) Date: 2009-02-13 20:50 Message: hrm. it indicates server mode on windows too. What does server mode mean anyway? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Alan Ezust (ezust) Date: 2009-02-13 18:57 Message: I wonder though, why would it say I'm running in server mode when I am on linux and didn't start it in server mode? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Shlomy Reinstein (shlomy) Date: 2009-02-06 08:50 Message: Implemented in SVN rev. 14592. The jEdit mode is now shown in the Help->About dialog. Let me know if you'd like to see different text for the mode in the about dialog. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350588&aid=2555956&group_id=588 |