Looking for the Perfect Editor

[Dick Moores]

At 08:51 AM 9/14/2006, stu wrote:

>Dick Moores wrote:
> > I'm trying out jEdit and UliPad. I got UliPad going right away and
> > I'm very pleased with it, but could I jump in here with a basic jEdit
> > question? How do you run a script?
> >
> > And one more. On the menus, the font is clear and large, but the
> > equivalent key combinations are written so small they are very
> > difficult for me to read. Is there a way to configure them to be
> > slightly larger? (I'd ask on the jEdit support forum, but it doesn't
> > seem to be very active.)
> >
>
>to change jedits fonts, under utilities menu choose global options
>
>select appearance, this has font options for menus + other fields
>text area has the editing text font (I use dialogeinput for menus and
>such and
>andale mono for the text area...)

I afraid I still don't see how to use larger fonts for the problem I 
mentioned. I mean the tiny fonts used, for example, to the right of 
File | New, where it says, I'm guessing, "C+n".

>to run a script.. you can 'dock' jython in the sides of the editor or
>bottom, and import from the buffer or load it.. or fire jython up from
>the plugin menu

Doesn't sound easy. With UliPad (or IDLE, for that matter) just hit F5.

>there is also a colour scheme plugin that gives you colour defaults if
>you want it to look lke emacs or jbuilder or idea etc etc etc
>
>jedit is pretty rich with its plugins.

Thanks,

Dick