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#1085 SnoutKick v1.0.0
SnoutKick v1.0.0
Source: https://github.com/kaloth/jedit/releases/tag/v1.0.0
Announcement: Initial Plugin Central release of SnoutKick.
This plugin has been in development since 2007. I find it useful, maybe someone else will too?
Requires Java 1.6
Requires jEdit 05.00.99.00
Short Description: A simple ctags sidebar for quickly browsing symbols
Long Description: This plugin is a GUI front end to the ectags program. It looks at the currently open buffer and provides you
with a display of indexable elements. In particular SnoutKick can tell you which function your cursor is currently in.
Note that the source package linked contains a selection of plugins but I'm only intending to release SnoutKick from the sub-directory of the same name.
Hopefully I've filled out everything correctly, I had to hack the "Create Plugin Announcement" plugin to get it working with the latest Java runtime, so finger crossed!
Finally: Thank-you dev team for making JEdit. I've used it for many years and it's absolutely the best editor for my work! 😁
Why would someone use this instead of CtagsSideKick?
I just tried out CtagsSideKick, it looks very comprehensive but it was unable to find my ctags install and had no way of specifying it's location. So sadly I can't test it.
Anyway, having choices is always good I see no reason why you can't have two plugins that do similar things?
Update: I found the setting! CtagsSideKick does indeed display the same information but in a different way. Here it is compared to SnoutKick..
CtagsSideKick has an interesting history. Before, there was CodeBrowser plugin and I asked the author to please turn it into a proper SideKick plugin. So he did, and we called it CTagsSideKick, and you can't download CodeBrowser anymore because it is no longer maintained. I like CtagsSideKick much better because we don't need another dockable to use it. My SideKick dockable has 16 parsers. I use it for showing me a structure browser in any language.
Last edit: Alan Ezust 2025-12-21
Ok, I can see you have a good setup and you're keen to keep things simple in terms of choice. Feel free to reject this if you want.