Re: [ jEdit-users ] opening files

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Alan Ezust writes: 

> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Dushan Mitrovich <du...@sp...> wrote:
>> I'm using jEdit 4.3.2 under Mac OS X.6.4, and have a question and a
>> suggestion: 
>>
>> Question:
>>     For the last several versions jEdit, opening a text-file from a
>> file manager (such as
>>     Path Finder or muCommander) will start jEdit (assuming it's not
>> already started) with
>>     a blank window, but the text-file itself will not be loaded.  If
>> jEdit was already open
>>     the invoked text-file will load into jEdit.  Is there a fix or
>> work-around to this behavior?
> 
> I've noticed this too. It seems like every other time I start jEdit up,
> there are empty buffers. Reload doesnt work, and I have to close and
> re-open to see it. 
> 
> I was not sure if this was a jEdit bug, or a bug in ProjectViewer
> (which I think was responsible for trying to open the file). Your
> observation makes me think it is jEdit and not PV. 
> 
> It is a bug, and if you can reproduce it, please file a bug report
> with the exact steps. I haven't had a reliable way to reproduce it
> yet.

I can reproduce it easily - in fact, can't help but reproduce it.  I'll
file a bug report.  Thanks for the suggestion.

>> Suggestion:
>>     Often I need to edit text-files in the same directory (folder).
>> But every time I ask
>>     jEdit to open a file (Cmd-O) the dialog window displays the
>> Applications folder, in
>>     which, of course, jEdit.app resides.  While jEdit remains open (but
>> not necessarily
>>     the OpenFile window), it would make sense that the OpenFile window
>> also stays
>>     pointed at the most-recently used folder, rather than reverting to
>> the Applications
>>     folder.  This would let the user open a neighboring (same
>> directory) text-file without
>>     having to re-specify the same folder.  Or is it already possible to
>> configure jEdit to
>>     behave this way?
> 
> Global Options - File System Browser - general - default path.

Terrific - thanks.  Guess I just didn't look hard enough. 

 - Dushan