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  1. <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Starting jEdit on Windows</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.65.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="jEdit 4.2 User's Guide"><link rel="up" href="starting.html" title="Chapter 2. Starting jEdit"><link rel="previous" href="starting-any-os.html" title="Platform-Independent Instructions"><link rel="next" href="cli-usage.html" title="Command Line Usage"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Starting jEdit on Windows</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="starting-any-os.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 2. Starting jEdit</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="cli-usage.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="starting-windows"></a>Starting jEdit on Windows</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
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  2.    jEdit bundles the <span class="emphasis"><em>jEditLauncher</em></span> package and automatically installs it on Windows. jEditLauncher is a set of components that make it easy to start jEdit, manage its command
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  3.    line settings, and launch files and macro scripts.
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  5.    The jEditLauncher package installs three shortcuts for running jEdit:  one at the top-level of the <span><b class="guilabel">Start</b></span> menu, another in the <span><b class="guilabel">Programs</b></span> submenu, and a third on your desktop.  Any of these may be deleted or moved without
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  6.    affecting jEdit's operation.  To launch jEdit, simply double-click one of these shortcuts
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  7.    as you would for any Windows application.
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  9.    The jEditLauncher package includes a utility for changing the command line
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  10.    parameters that are stored with jEditLauncher and used every time it runs jEdit.
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  11.    You can change the Java interpreter used to launch jEdit, the amount of heap memory,
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  12.    the working directory and other command line parameters.  To make these changes,
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  13.    select <span><b class="guilabel">Set jEdit Parameters</b></span> from the jEdit group in
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  14.    the Programs menu, or run <b class="userinput"><tt>jedit /p</tt></b> from a command
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  15.    line that has jEdit's installation directory in its search path.  A dialog
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  16.    will appear that allows you to change and save a new set of command line
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  19.    The package also adds menu items to the context or &#8220;<span class="quote">right-click</span>&#8221;
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  20.    menu displayed by the Windows shell when you click on a file item in the
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  21.    desktop window, a Windows Explorer window or a standard file selection dialog.
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  22.    The menu entries allow  you to open selected files in jEdit, starting the
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  23.    application if necessary. It will also allow you to open all files in a
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  24.    directory with a given extension with a single menu selection. If a BeanShell
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  25.    macro script with a <tt class="filename">.bsh</tt> extension is selected, the menu
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  26.    includes the option of running that script within jEdit. If you have the
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  27.    <span class="application">JDiff</span> plugin installed with jEdit, you can also
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  28.    select two files and have jEdit compare them in a side-by-side graphical display.
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  30.    For a more detailed description of all features found in
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  31.    the jEditLauncher package, see <a href="launcher-guide.html" title="Appendix G. jEditLauncher for Windows">Appendix G, <i>jEditLauncher for Windows</i></a>.
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