Category Archives: jedit

Jedit still going strong – increase heap size

May 6, 2008 – 10:40 am

I still use jedit for all my tasks that require a text editor. I’ve been using it for about 4 years now and rarely find fault with it. One thing I did notice was that it slowed down quite alot if I was editing or searching large files. I knew this was down to Java [...]

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Christmas Charity – the Open Source way

December 15, 2006 – 12:05 pm

Every year for the last few years I have given to charity at Christmas. Last year it was Oxfam but this year I wanted to do something a bit different. In the early days of Aggreg8 development, I got a $10 donation and it freaked me out, I coded for days with a crazy energy [...]

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Multiple instances of jEdit

October 26, 2006 – 2:44 pm

I am a complete jEdit fanatic and it always has a place on my taskbar. jEdit is ver clever when running multiple versions each instance communicates over TCP IP so that all instances are identical. What if you don’t want that and want to have different file open in different instances of jEdit (or if [...]

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