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- <h1>Quick Start Guide</h1>
- <p>If you want to get started with jEdit quickly and take advantage of its
- advanced features, this page is the right place to look.</p>
- <h3>Step 1 -- Get a Java runtime</h3>
- <p>To use jEdit 4.4, you need to have Java version 1.6 (aka Java 6) or newer.
- If you only have Java 1.5 (aka Java 5) available on your machine, you can use
- jEdit 4.3. </p>
- <a href="index.php?page=compatibility">compatibility page</a> details some
- common Java runtime versions that people use to run jEdit, and compatibility
- notes for them.</p>
- <h3>Step 2 -- Download jEdit</h3>
- <p>jEdit can be downloaded from the <a href="index.php?page=download">download</a>
- page.
- </p>
- <h3>Step 3 -- Get some plugins</h3>
- <p>jEdit by itself is just a text editor; plugins can turn it into a powerful IDE.
- You can install as few or as many plugins as you want.</p>
- <p>jEdit makes plugin installation a painless process; you invoke the
- <b>Plugin Manager</b> command from the editor's <b>Plugins</b> menu, click
- <b>Install Plugins</b>, and a list of plugins will be obtained for you;
- you can then select plugins to download and install.</p>
- <p>There are more than 150 plugins listed on
- <a href="http://plugins.jedit.org">Plugin Central</a>; this list can be
- somewhat daunting. Here is a short list of some plugins you might want to try:</p>
- <h4>Programming</h4>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?ProjectViewer">ProjectViewer</a> </li>
- <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?AntFarm">AntFarm</a>
- <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?Console">Console</a>
- <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?CtagSideKick">CtagsSideKick</a>
- <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?JavaSideKick">JavaSideKick</a>
- <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?ClassBrowser">ClassBrowser</a>
- <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?CtagsInterface">CtagsInterface</a>
- </ul>
- <h4>HTML/XML</h4>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?XML">XML</a>
- <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?Beauty">Beauty</a>
- <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?XSLT">XSLT</a>
- </ul>
- <h4>Other</h4>
- <ul>
- <li> <a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?FastOpen">FastOpen</a>
- <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?Archive">Archive</a>
- <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?BufferTabs">BufferTabs</a>
- <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?FTP">FTP</a>
- <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?JDiffPlugin">JDiffPlugin</a>
- <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?SpellCheck">SpellCheck</a>
- <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?Templates">Templates</a>
- </ul>
- <h3>Step 4 -- jEdit documentation</h3>
- <p>jEdit includes detailed online help. You can also find a PDF version of the
- user's guide (suitable for printing) at the
- <a href="index.php?page=download">download</a> page.</p>
- <h3>Step 5 -- Get involved with the community!</h3>
- <p>If you want to be notified of jEdit development progress, or if you want to
- ask a question, or if you want to discuss topics relating to jEdit,
- subscribe to the mailing lists found at the
- <a href="index.php?page=feedback">feedback</a> page. A link to the jEdit bug
- tracker can be found on the same page as well.</p>
- <p>The <a href="http://community.jedit.org">jEdit community site</a> also
- provides a great wealth of information for jEdit users; you can find
- user-contributed macros here, along with jEdit-related news, message boards,
- various downloads and links, and much, much more.</p>
- <p>Finally, if you want to chat with other jEdit users, install the
- <a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?IRC">IRC</a> plugin for jEdit!
- This allows you to start a chat session inside the editor.</p>
- <p>jEdit is Open Source software, so anyone is welcome to join the development
- team. If you want to contribute, take a look at the
- <a href="index.php?page=devel">development</a> page for details.</p>
- <h3>A note about jEdit performance</h3>
- <p>Having a lot of plugins installed slows down jEdit startup. JythonInterpreter and JavaInsight are the worst offenders, together adding about 7 seconds to the jEdit startup time. jEdit 4.2 adds a new plugin API that makes the task of writing a quick-loading plugin much easier.</p>
- <p>
- <b>We hope you enjoy using jEdit!</b><br>
- <i>-- The jEdit developers.</i>
- </p>