Re: [ jEdit-users ] jEdit 2.7pre1 now available

[Slava P. <sp...@gj...>]

Oliver Rutherfurd wrote:
> I really like this, for what its worth.  I know Buffer Tabs are popular with
> a lot of people, but I keep a number of buffers open, and Buffer Tabs takes
> up a lot of room - which I would rather have for the text area.  However, is
> there a way to invoke the drop-down with an action?  It would be great to be
> able to access the drop-down without having to use the mouse to click on it.

With the BeanShell scripting in jEdit 2.7pre2, a macro to do this would be
easy to cook up.

> Slava, have you considered adding wrapping such that line breaks are not
> inserted, but the line itself is just wrapped so it can be displayed without
> scrolling?  Some things, like xsl, can be screwy about line breaks (or
> rather output from a transformation can be screwy) - and you can end up with
> lines that are *very* long - and having to scroll over a couple hundred
> characters is hard to follow (if you have conditional statements, etc...

Implementing this would be rather hard, and I don't think I'll do it for a
while yet.

Slava