jEdit in Ubuntu - is something wrong?

[Karl Larsen]

Philippe Didier wrote:
> Rosalind Mitchell wrote:
>   
>> Having heard rave reviews of it, I installed jEdit under 7.10 to evaluate as a 
>> programmer's editor.  This in itself required some jumping through hoops, and 
>> when I finally got there I was rather less than whelmed by it.  Never mind 
>> that loads of the much-vaunted plugins won't install, it's the general 
>> appearance of the thing that is appalling.  The font rendering gives me a 
>> headache.  Am I doing something wrong?  Is there something I need to know?  I 
>> can manage without jEdit but then I've yet to find an editor that suits my 
>> purposes precisely and I want to believe the good things I've heard about 
>> jEdit.
>>
>> Rosie 
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> Hi Rosie.
>
> I am using Jedit for many years, on Fedora then Ubuntu 7.10, with no 
> "headache" problem and the font is quite perfect. I am a PHP programmer 
> and the rendering and colors are really good and I see no difference 
> with other text editor.
> So I really don't understand what you mean by "bad font rendering". Is 
> this happen only with Jedit ? Dis you check the font in the Glogal Options ?
>
> By the way I am using Jedit 4.3.pre12 on Java 1.6.0.03 (check the About 
> of Jedit)....maybe a Java problem...
>
> Philippe
>
>   
    Perhaps in this same vein I use good old joe to do my general vi 
stuff and just got to writing some C code. To my surprise when I used 
the title for a file as filename.c joe started using colors and 
indenting for me after the {. I was surprised and kind of pleased. Old 
joe got colors.

Karl



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