jEdit

http://www.jedit.org/ jEdit is a free, open-source application that can be downloaded from this website. It can be used for many kinds of documents including: HTML XML ReST Plain text - and for formatting text to paste into wiki pages, Excel sheets, etc.

Useful Features Note – jEdit uses the term “buffer” instead of document or file (so 3 open text files would be 3 open buffers)

The Tip of the Day can be a useful way to find new shortcuts and options.

Icons from left to right: New document Open Save Close Print Undo Redo Cut Copy Paste Find Find next New window Collapse all splits Split the window vertically Split the window horizontally Buffer options Global options Plugin manager Help

jEdit automatically highlights formatting for some kinds of text jEdit automatically highlights formatting for some kinds of text. In this example, the texts are (clockwise, starting from the upper-left corner): xml – Extensible Markup Language html – Hyper-Text Markup Language Text – plain text ReST – ReStructured Text Note: text colors can be changed under Utilities > Global Options > Syntax Highlighting

There are three different ways of selecting text in jEdit: The upper-left text shows a regular selection. The lower-left text shows a “multiple selection” which can be toggled using Ctrl + \ or by going to Edit > More Selection The right text shows a “rectangular selection” which can be toggled using Alt+ \ or by going to Edit > More Selection Selecting texts in blocks is particularly useful for editing text with wiki formatting or to change blocks of text from an Excel spreadsheet.

Regular copy and paste Ctrl + c Ctrl + v jEdit has several ways to copy/cut and paste text: Ordinary copy and paste works, using the icons in the menu, the Edit menu, or Ctrl + x (cut), Ctrl +c (copy), and Ctrl + v (paste)

2. Saved list: Ctrl + e + v Saved copy and paste jEdit automatically saves the last 20 things you have cut or copied and can be accessed using Ctrl + e + v. You can change the number of items it saves in the list by going to Utilities > Global Options > Appearance and then changing the number of “History text field entries to remember”

3. Register copy and paste Ctrl + r + c x Ctrl + r + v x 3. Registers Registers allow you to copy text you’ll use often and ‘name’ the register (clipboard). Use Ctrl + r + c x (where x is the letter you’ve chosen to name the register). So you could name something “g” and use Ctrl + r + c g. To paste it, use Ctrl + r + v x (inserting the name of the register for ‘x’).

Word-wrap Line numbers Customize shortcuts Global Options Word-wrap Line numbers Customize shortcuts Global options affect every open buffer and every new buffer that you open. They can be found under Utilities > Global Options.

This slide shows the Global Options menu; some useful customizations are: Appearance – change the number of “History text field entries to remember” Editing – change whether or not word wrapping is on and change how wide the margin is when it wraps (this is useful for writing web page texts or other documents that have a limit on the character width of the text) Gutter – add/remove line numbers to the gutter Shortcuts – add/change shortcuts for things you use often including toggle word-wrap and the “Buffer Switcher” (see later slides) View – change the number of files immediately visible in the buffer-switcher drop-down menu under the toolbar

Toggle Word-Wrap Buffer Switcher Useful shortcuts: Toggle Word-Wrap Buffer Switcher You have the option to edit existing shortcuts or add new ones in the Global Options. I have added shortcuts to toggle word-wrapping and open the “Buffer Switcher” menu window.

This is what the Buffer-Switcher looks like if you add in the shortcut This is what the Buffer-Switcher looks like if you add in the shortcut. The buffer switcher has options to view or close open buffers as well as changing to a different one. It lists all open buffers alphabetically (instead of by most recent the way that the drop-down menu does) and includes the file path. Note: This window is listed under “Buffer Switcher” not “Show Buffer Switcher” which opens the drop-down menu under the toolbar.

Navigation Shortcuts Ctrl + PageUp = Previous Buffer Ctrl + PageDown = Next Buffer Useful shortcuts for navigating open buffers.

Finding Plug-ins http://plugins.jedit.org/ This site has descriptions of all of the currently-available plug-ins. You can sort through the plug-ins by category.

Side-Kick Vox Spell Text Tools Buffer Tabs Sudoku Useful Plug-ins Side-Kick Vox Spell Text Tools Buffer Tabs Sudoku These are plug-ins I have found useful (and one just for fun). Side-Kick – you can turn on keystroke parsing for xml (and selected other languages) and it can automatically fill in end tags Vox Spell – spell check Text tools – lets you sort text as a whole or by selecting sections to use for sorting Buffer tabs – visually shows you all open buffers as tabs Sudoku – allows you to build Sudoku grids and get hints (based on the description - I haven’t actually used this).

Change Plug-in Options You can customize plug-ins by going to Plugins > Plugin Options For example: Sidekick – choose “parse on keystroke” to have parsing errors underlined as you type Vox Spell – choose a custom underline color and automatically start spell-checking for every document

Questions?