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  3. <h1>Quick Start Guide</h1>
  4. <p>If you want to get started with jEdit quickly and take advantage of its
  5. advanced features, this page is the right place to look.</p>
  6. <h3>Step 1 -- Get a Java runtime</h3>
  7. <p>To use jEdit 4.4, you need to have Java version 1.6 (aka Java 6) or newer.
  8. If you only have Java 1.5 (aka Java 5) available on your machine, you can use
  9. jEdit 4.3. </p>
  10. <a href="index.php?page=compatibility">compatibility page</a> details some
  11. common Java runtime versions that people use to run jEdit, and compatibility
  12. notes for them.</p>
  13. <h3>Step 2 -- Download jEdit</h3>
  14. <p>jEdit can be downloaded from the <a href="index.php?page=download">download</a>
  15. page.
  16. </p>
  17. <h3>Step 3 -- Get some plugins</h3>
  18. <p>jEdit by itself is just a text editor; plugins can turn it into a powerful IDE.
  19. You can install as few or as many plugins as you want.</p>
  20. <p>jEdit makes plugin installation a painless process; you invoke the
  21. <b>Plugin Manager</b> command from the editor's <b>Plugins</b> menu, click
  22. <b>Install Plugins</b>, and a list of plugins will be obtained for you;
  23. you can then select plugins to download and install.</p>
  24. <p>There are more than 150 plugins listed on
  25. <a href="http://plugins.jedit.org">Plugin Central</a>; this list can be
  26. somewhat daunting. Here is a short list of some plugins you might want to try:</p>
  27. <h4>Programming</h4>
  28. <ul>
  29. <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?ProjectViewer">ProjectViewer</a> </li>
  30. <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?AntFarm">AntFarm</a>
  31. <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?Console">Console</a>
  32. <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?CtagSideKick">CtagsSideKick</a>
  33. <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?JavaSideKick">JavaSideKick</a>
  34. <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?ClassBrowser">ClassBrowser</a>
  35. <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?CtagsInterface">CtagsInterface</a>
  36. </ul>
  37. <h4>HTML/XML</h4>
  38. <ul>
  39. <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?XML">XML</a>
  40. <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?Beauty">Beauty</a>
  41. <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?XSLT">XSLT</a>
  42. </ul>
  43. <h4>Other</h4>
  44. <ul>
  45. <li> <a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?FastOpen">FastOpen</a>
  46. <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?Archive">Archive</a>
  47. <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?BufferTabs">BufferTabs</a>
  48. <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?FTP">FTP</a>
  49. <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?JDiffPlugin">JDiffPlugin</a>
  50. <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?SpellCheck">SpellCheck</a>
  51. <li><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?Templates">Templates</a>
  52. </ul>
  53. <h3>Step 4 -- jEdit documentation</h3>
  54. <p>jEdit includes detailed online help. You can also find a PDF version of the
  55. user's guide (suitable for printing) at the
  56. <a href="index.php?page=download">download</a> page.</p>
  57. <h3>Step 5 -- Get involved with the community!</h3>
  58. <p>If you want to be notified of jEdit development progress, or if you want to
  59. ask a question, or if you want to discuss topics relating to jEdit,
  60. subscribe to the mailing lists found at the
  61. <a href="index.php?page=feedback">feedback</a> page. A link to the jEdit bug
  62. tracker can be found on the same page as well.</p>
  63. <p>The <a href="http://community.jedit.org">jEdit community site</a> also
  64. provides a great wealth of information for jEdit users; you can find
  65. user-contributed macros here, along with jEdit-related news, message boards,
  66. various downloads and links, and much, much more.</p>
  67. <p>Finally, if you want to chat with other jEdit users, install the
  68. <a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?IRC">IRC</a> plugin for jEdit!
  69. This allows you to start a chat session inside the editor.</p>
  70. <p>jEdit is Open Source software, so anyone is welcome to join the development
  71. team. If you want to contribute, take a look at the
  72. <a href="index.php?page=devel">development</a> page for details.</p>
  73. <h3>A note about jEdit performance</h3>
  74. <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>
  75. <p>
  76. <b>We hope you enjoy using jEdit!</b><br>
  77. <i>-- The jEdit developers.</i>
  78. </p>