Re: [ jEdit-users ] Buffer selector plugin

[Alan E. <ala...@gm...>]

The BufferSelector was last updated in 2002.
Nobody maintains it.

What is it about BufferSelector that you think is missing from all the
other fastopen/bufferlist type plugins?

Here are the bugs reported against it. Note how few of them are closed as
fixed.

https://sourceforge.net/p/jedit/plugin-bugs/search/?q=%22Buffer+Selector%22



On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Zoltán Kócsi <zo...@be...> wrote:

> The plugin in the subject is marked as 'obsolete' and can not be
> downloaded.
>
> My question is, in what way is it obsolete? That it hasn't been
> developed for a while, or that it does not work with the latest jEdit
> release?
>

both.


>
> In any case, even if obsolete, would it be possible to download its
> last revision from somewhere? That could go for other 'abandonware'
> plugins as well; just have an 'obsoleted' folder with all the old
> stuff.
>

Yes, they are available here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jedit-plugins/files/?source=navbar


>
> I personally prefer the buffer selector plugin over anything else
> currently on offer and if it is at all compatible with the newer jEdit,
> I would not mind whether it has changed in the past 10 years or not,
> because it does what I want, unlike the available alternates.
>
> In fact, I wouldn't even mind running an older jEdit version like 4.5
> if that was the price, but it seems that unlike any other open source
> code I know the old versions of jEdit are not available for download.
>

They can be found here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jedit/files/jedit/


>
> So, would it be possible to make older versions of the code (the
> editor proper as well as the plugins) available for download? With no
> support, of course, all the usual disclaimers, at your own risk, but at
> least available?
>

They're there if you know how to navigate around sf.net.