From: Vampire <Vampire@jEdit.org> - 2011-10-14 09:24:00
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Hi John, three things. 1. We officially only support Sun Java - or now Oracle Java. With other Javas like OpenJDK things might or might not work. We try to make all as portable as possible though. One thing that as of Java 6 is crappy in OpenJDK compared to Sun Java is the font rendering which looks ugly on OpenJDK but nice on Sun Java. 2. You should be able to install any font that suits your need in your system and Java and thus jEdit should be able to pick it up and make it selectable to you. So just find a monospaced Font that has all the characters you need and install it into your system. 3. Ubuntu is like Debian very restrictive regarding updates of versions in the repository and usually only put in security updates after an Ubuntu version was released. You can instead use our own repository with our official Debian packages so you can update jEdit with apt automatically. Just follow the instructions on the download page for this. Regards Vampire John Francis Lee schrieb: > I downloaded Door Number 1, the jave install for all oses... worked like > a charm, apparently... ubuntu is still happy with 4.3.2, so I'm very > pleased that the java install worked so well! > > Thanks for jedit! > > ( a quick check shows that the monospaced font available under openjava > still does not have Thai characters... I'd really like to have just one > java environment... and now that oracle has grabbed sun's java I'd like > oracle java not to be the one environment I do use. I realize these > things are beyond your control as well. thanks again for your superb > software.) > > On 10/14/2011 06:43 AM, Vampire wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I proudly present jEdit 4.4.2, the second official stable release of the >> 4.4 series of jEdit. >> >> >> Here are some convenient links to see the live state of major problems: >> >> - Bugs which are marked as "severe": >> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=588&atid=100588&status=1&artgroup=101607 >> >> - Bugs which are marked as "regressive": >> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=588&atid=100588&status=1&artgroup=619797 >> >> >> Volunteers are always welcome to fix these bugs: >> http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=devel >> >> >> That being said, here is the download link: >> http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download >> >> >> FYI, merge requests for the 4.4 series (fix done, but waiting for a review): >> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=588&atid=1235750&status=1&artgroup=1360914 >> >> >> Have fun with the new release. >> >> Best Regards >> Björn "Vampire" Kautler >> >> >> jEdit 4.4 version history >> (changes since jEdit 4.3) >> :encoding=UTF-8: >> >> {{{ Version 4.4.2 >> >> Thanks to Björn "Vampire" Kautler, Alan Ezust, Matthieu Casanova, and >> Evan Wright for contributing to this release. >> >> {{{ Bug Fixes >> >> - Untitled buffer should not be created on VFS without write capability >> (#3399387) (Matthieu Casanova) >> >> - Shortcuts option pane was showing shortcuts twice when an action was >> overridden by a macro or a plugin (Matthieu Casanova) >> >> - When macros are reloaded, if one of them was overriding a built-in action, >> the action is not restored if the overriding macro is removed >> (#3110689 - Matthieu Casanova) >> >> - Fixed a bug which caused lines to disappear when using indent folding >> if every line was indented (#3412237 - Evan Wright) >> >> - When removing a plugin, the update and install panel were not refreshed >> (Matthieu Casanova) >> >> - Fixed a corner case when trying to move caret during a buffer operation >> (loading, transaction, undo) prevent to move the caret forever >> (Matthieu Casanova) >> >> - Fixed jEdit starting when max heap size is too low to load Killring >> (#1827853) (Matthieu Casanova >> >> - MiscUtilities.expandVariables() now recognizes %varname% on Windows, >> meaning it can reverse what MiscUtilities.abbreviate() does. (Alan Ezust). >> >> - Fixed NPE when starting jEdit with nosettings (#3401814) (Matthieu Casanova) >> >> - Fixed several case where userinput during buffer loading cause exceptions >> (#3398342) (Matthieu Casanova) >> >> - Pressing left arrow when the caret is at the buffer start but in a selection >> now cancels the selection as it should. (#3396672) (Matthieu Casanova) >> >> - Fixed loading of jEdit in case of corrupted recent.xml file in the settings >> (#3396545) (Matthieu Casanova) >> >> - If the current buffer is on a VFS that is not browseable (ex:http), trying >> to open a new file was trying to browse the path of the current file giving >> an error (Matthieu Casanova) >> >> - Error Widget now use the same color as Invalid token instead of being always >> red (Matthieu Casanova) >> >> - Fix for tracker 3034220, jEdit fails to load text-file under Mac OS X >> (#3034220 - Evan Wright) >> >> - Fixed a bug that occured when jumping to a line inside of a nested fold. >> (#3406213 - Evan Wright) >> >> }}} >> {{{ Editing >> >> - elsif compiler directive added to verilog edit mode (#3261277) >> (Matthieu Casanova) >> >> }}} >> >> }}} >> >> jEdit buffer local properties: >> :folding=explicit:collapseFolds=2: >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a >> definitive record of customers, application performance, security >> threats, fraudulent activity and more. 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