Well, now that I customized my colors, and added a couple of plugins, I’m starting to really like this editor!
Here’s a couple of plugins you should look into:
- jEdit Ruby: For rails/ruby development, it features a LOT of cool options.
- PHPParser: Useful for PHP (identation, error reporting etc. )
- SuperAbbrevs: Detailed in previous post
- ProjectViewer: Not as good as TextMate’s project management, but very useful and similar.
- BufferTabs: To add a tab interface, to switch between buffers (essential)
- Console: As you expect, a console! (very useful for RoR)
Now the only feature I really miss is auto bracket completion (yes I know it comes with the Ruby plugin, but it doesn’t work when editing Php files, I tried setting Sidekick’s php parser to Ruby…didn’t work…) The only way to make it work is to switch the Edit Mode in buffer option to Ruby, but then you lose PHP’s syntax highlighting.
I haven’t found a plugin for generic Auto-Bracket completion yet :( So I might try to code one myself, although I haven’t touched anything Java in a looong time….