How do I set up my Windows file associations when using a daily build?
What steps did you follow? Here's a link to MS that tells how to do it, is this the same one you used?
Yes, that's a different article but those are the same steps that I followed.
> this the same one you used?
>> How do I set up my Windows file associations when using a daily build?
Darn, sorry that I can't be further help, I don't have windows to test with.
Thanks anyway. How long til 5.4.0 is officially released, in that case?
> Darn, sorry that I can't be further help, I don't have windows to test with.
>> > this the same one you used?
>> >> How do I set up my Windows file associations when using a daily build?
What I do is use the windows installer that is officially released to set the file associations.
I install it to c:\jEdit so it doesn't go into C:\Program Files. That way I have file permissions already.
Then I use the java .jar installer to upgrade over that with 5.4.
I think 5.4.0 should be released ASAP.
OT question; jEdit being excelent editor, are there any plans to make it "prettyer"?
Metal is outdated and other lafs have problems, all of them; "windows" has repainting problems on window/component resize; Nimbus has broken buttons( to small?) and weird sized scroolbars, "motif" is plain ugly and all other from coresponding look&feel plugin have problems or are just weird/ugly.
Dalibor, have you tried the Substance look and feel? I think it looks quite nice and I use it all the time. It's distributed as a separate plugin that integrates with the Look and Feel plugin.
Xsl is one of those text formats about which Windows seems to have opinionated behavior.
You should see an entry called PerceivedType which has its value set to "text"
Double-click on PerceivedType and change the value to "document"
Jesse - I tried a CSS file too just in case XSL was being weird.
been added to the list of programs I can open with.
context menu on files, but I sure do miss that double-click action.
> Double-click on PerceivedType and change the value to "document"
>> still doesn't appear in the list of programs I can use to open the file.
1. Bring up the Windows Control Panel app.
3. Under "Folder Options" there should be a link which says "Change the file type associated with a file extension". Click on this link.
4. Find the extension you care about in the list and double-click it.
A. Click the Browse… button.
D. Click the "Open" button on the "Open with…" dialog.
E. Ensure "jEdit – Programmer's Text Editor" is selected in the dialog.
F. Click "OK" on the "Open with" dialog.
6. Verify that "jEdit – Programmer's Text Editor" is now associated with the extension you care about.
Yes, those are the steps I've been trying. The problem occurs between steps 5C and 5D. After I browse to & select jedit.exe, it's still not showing up in the "Open With" dialog, so I can't proceed. There doesn't seem to be any way to get it to open with jEdit from that end. Thanks for trying!
So I'm unable to complete Step 5E: Ensure "jEdit – Programmer's Text Editor" is selected in the dialog.
Does my problem make sense? Am I missing something obvious?
Click on it, and it puts you into the Windows file browser. Navigate to C:\Program Files\jEdit\ and choose jedit.exe. Then proceed with the rest of the steps.
You'll also want to click the "Always use..." checkbox in this dlg box, otherwise you'll be doing the same thing next time you want to open a file with that extension.
5.4 is out, I downloaded the windows installer on my wife's computer, and jEdit was automatically associated with .txt files, in fact, "Open with jEdit" shows up on the list on any file I right-click on in the file explorer. Setting default as described previously works as expected. Maybe give the 5.4 release version a try? I'm not sure what feature you were needing from 5.4 that you were using the daily builds. If you still need to use the daily builds, maybe download and run the windows installer first, then copy the jedit.jar from the daily build to wherever you installed jEdit (probably C:\Program Files\jEdit)?
and replace the path to jedit.exe with Your correct path. Note that backslashes which are parts of a pathname has to be duplicated inside this fie. If You don't have administration permissions, then also replace "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" by "HKEY_CURRENT_USER".
Save the edited file and run it by double-clicking and confirm the questions with OK.