Installing Java

• For Linux check out Oracle Linux Java Plugin Instructions and choose the appropriate link to install the JDK 5.0 Update 12.
  • For Windows: click the "accept" button
    choose the first one for windows and save it, and then run it (double click on it on the desktop)
  • For Linux: The Linux RPM is probably the best
    Note: help for getting the Java Plugin to work in Firefox/Mozilla (On CentOS 5 you can do the following:
    su
    cd Downloads
    sh
    cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
    ln -s
    Then restart Firefox

Installing Jedit

1. Go to jedit.org and click on "Quickstart"
2. When you go to download jedit, choose the Stable version, either the Windows Installer or the Java-Based installer (java based installer for linux, or use one of the repositories like DAG)
3. NOTE: For Linux, as root at the command line, run:
   java -jar jedit42install.jar to do the installaion
   Then right click on the task bar at the top of the screen,
   Add to Panel+
   Custom Application Launcher put in Jedit for the name
   and then /usr/local/bin/jedit for the command.
4. Also for linux, you need to edit the .bash_profile file in your users home directory to have the following lines at the end (make sure the path and the version number/name of the jdk you install is correct
   

   PATH=/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_12/bin:$PATH:$HOME/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
   JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_12/
   LC_ALL=POSIX
   export PATH LC_ALL JAVA_HOME
   
   

   (NOTE: change the /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_12/ to the appropriate path for your JAVA install)
5. For Linux, you may also need to set up a application launcher, and inside it the command to start jedit is java -jar jedit.jar

Configuring Jedit

1. After Jedit has started up (should be in the menu in windows), click on "Plugins" in the top menu, and slide to "Plugin Manager"
2. Click on "Install Plugins" and wait for the list to come up
3. At the very least, choose these plugins
   (For HTML students, the ones with ** are the most critical)
   1. FTP**
   2. PHPParserPlugin (May need to go into the options and turn on PHP 5 checking
   3. Sidekick** (on some versions you may need to go into the options for Sidekick and tell it to use PHPParser and not the HTML validator for .php files
   4. BufferTabs **
   5. Character Map
   6. JazzyPlugin ** (for spell checking)
   7. JDiffPlugin
   8. Code2HTML
   9. PerlBrowse
   10. XML**
   11. XMLIndenter**
   12. XSLT**
   13. Jakarta commons**
   14. XercesPlugin*8
   15. QuickNotepad**
   16. Latest Version Check**
   17. JPyDebug
   18. ErrorList**
4. If this is being installed at MCC for the image, make sure to check "Install in System Plugin Directory", otherwise, just click "install".
5. You can also check out plugins at Jedit Plugins or get help and information at The Jedit Community
   NOTE: It may be necessary to Manually Install Plugsins
6. Shutdown and restart jedit, then go to plugins 2 and choose macro manager, select "Grep Like Macros" and install to System Plugin directory.
7. NOW: You will need to edit some of the "global" settings.
   • Choose the "Global Options" tab, which is two icons left of the black circle wih a "?"
   • Choose "Editing" and within that window change the indent and tab stops to "4" spaces with the pull down menus
   • Choose "General"
     • Using the pulldown menu in the new window, for "Default Line Seperator" switch it to Unix (\n)
     • UNCHECK the "Two Stage Save" as this messes with file permissions
   • Choose "Gutter"
     • Check "line numbering"
   • Go to "Text Area" and uncheck "End of line markers" so those annoying "not really there periods" disappear
8. Click on "Plugins" from the main menu
   • Choose "plugin options"
   • Click on "Buffer Tabs" from the menu window on the left of the dialog box that opens up
   • Choose the box "enable buffer tabs by default"

Using Jedit

• Start up jedit, read tip of the day ;)
  Note: May ask for a password if the last person using it used the sftp option, just click cancel
  

  To open an existing file

• Click on "file" then "open"
• Within the new window, choose plugins, then "Connect to secure ftp server"
• For remote host type "lampbusters.com"
• For User name: type your mcc username
• Ditto for the password field
• Switch into the appropriate directory (usually public_html or www) and choose the file you want
• Now whenver you save (click on the pencil icon) it's automatically ftp'd up to the server, so you can just hit reload in your browser
  

  To create a new file

• You can just go "file" "new" and when you go to save it
• Just click on the "Plugins" and then "Connect to Secure ftp server" and basically follow the same instructions as above.

Jedit Features

• Syntax highlighting:
  Which helps you to see what key words you are using (for perl, html, javascript etc etc)
• Bracket and tag matching:
  If you put the cursor on a (, { or < it will put a square around the appropriate closing character.
• Spell Checker (Jazzy, under 2 in the plugins menu)
• Regular cut and pasting and mouse use
• For HTML, if you just type <, it will pop up a menu of SOME of the common HTML tags that you can use, and often a submenu of the appropriate options
• And of course, it can now error check PHP 5 ;)