A console text editor.

Jed does radical new things, such as allowing the user to use tab to insert a "tab" character. It represents an incredible new frontier of usability. Oh, and it has a menu, like any real program would.

Unfortunately, it's misconfigured and there are no clues as to how to fix it. So it's useless.

JED Modes Repository -- A collection of S-Lang scripts (modes) contributed by JED users.

2006-03-06? - (version not recorded) on (distribution not recorded)
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- 3.1 With Ruby support

2006-03-06? - (version not recorded) ∞

Configuring ∞

by default, Jed's global configuration settings are in /usr/share/jed/lib/jed.rc but ~/.jedrc will override them.

cp /usr/share/jed/lib/jed.rc ~/.jedrc

https://web.archive.org/web/20161118220845/http://www.fi.infn.it/info/jed/jed_17.html says you can make a ~/.Xdefaults with settings..

Fixing Keys ∞

control-left/control-right don't work
control-backspace doesn't work
home/end don't work
control-home/control-end don't work.
control-s should save. Most hotkeys need to be redefined somehow, so that they are single key combinations like in the real world.

Tabs ∞

Tab width: TAB_DEFAULT = ;

Problem: Pressing tab inserts a tab character. cursor-left/cursor-right hops back and forth through that tab. However, pressing backspace goes back one character.

Not a solution: How do I make the TAB key work?

public define global_mode_hook (hook_name)
{
  local_setkey ("self_insert_cmd", "\t");
}
setkey ("self_insert_cmd", "\t");

https://web.archive.org/web/20060911225434/http://profs.sci.univr.it:80/~gonzato/jed/jed-quickref.html claims:

By default, the Tab key is used in many modes to indent the text, but you can change the setkey definition in .jedrc to have it insert a real Tab character (ASCII 9).

But there is no hint as to what that means or how to go about doing this.

Delete ∞

Problem: Pressing delete makes my screen flash.

No solution has been found.

Colour ∞

/usr/share/doc/jed-common-<version>/color.txt
/usr/share/jed/lib/colors/

edit ~/.jedrc

set_color_scheme ("black3");

Then customize the colours:

jed /usr/share/jed/lib/colors/

change:

$1 = "white"; $2 = "black";

to:

$1 = "grey"; $2 = "black";

I don't know of an easier way to do this. No sane colour scheme is included, and no commandline switches are known.

(date not recorded) - 0.99-18 ∞

make gives...

Spoiler

make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/public/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src'
mkdir /home/user/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src/objs
/bin/cp /home/user/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src/sysconf.h config.h
gcc -g -O2   -Dunix -DJED  -I/usr/include/slang -Wl,-export-dynamic /home/user/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src/chkslang.c -o /home/user/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src/objs/chkslang -Wl,-export-dynamic   -lslang    -lutil  -lm -ldl
if /home/user/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src/objs/chkslang jed 10311 ;\
        then exit 0; else rm -f /home/user/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src/objs/chkslang; exit 1; fi
cd /home/user/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src/objs; gcc -c -g -O2   -Dunix -DJED  -I/usr/include/slang  -DJED_ROOT='"/usr/local/jed"'  /home/user/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src/buffer.c
cd /home/user/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src/objs; gcc -c -g -O2   -Dunix -DJED  -I/usr/include/slang  -DJED_ROOT='"/usr/local/jed"'  /home/user/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src/cmds.c
cd /home/user/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src/objs; gcc -c -g -O2   -Dunix -DJED  -I/usr/include/slang  -DJED_ROOT='"/usr/local/jed"'  /home/user/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src/misc.c
/home/user/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src/misc.c: In function ‘jed_ungetkey_wchar’:
/home/user/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src/misc.c:744: error: ‘SLUTF8_MAX_MBLEN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/user/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src/misc.c:744: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/user/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src/misc.c:744: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [/home/user/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src/objs/misc.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/public/working/editors/jed-0.99-18/src'
make: *** [jed] Error 2

(date not recorded) - 0.99.16/Unix ∞

delete doesn't work
home and end don't work
control- and left/right/pageup/pagedown/home/end don't work
Its hotkeys are stupid. control-s should save.. why screw around with control-x control-s to save!
- Are these user-definable? -- Probably, somehow.

With Ruby support ∞

(Ruby)

This would be king if it didn't have insane defaults or was at least configurable.

(not archived) - hem.fyristorg.com/e-gerell/johann/jed/ruby.sl
https://shugo.net/archive/jed-ruby/

Requires slang.

apt-get install libslang1-devel

except it requires SLang-j .. which I can't find anywhere.

Last updated 2020-05-26 at 10:35:29

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