Re: integrate autobrackets in jEdit

Does anyone know if  "Ollie Rutherfurd" is still around? The copyright in
the FirstMate plugin is 2006. Thought I would ask him if he still supported
it and if not politely ask if I could fork it.

Thanks,

Bob

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Michael Maxwell <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Agreed, having everything or nothing autopair would be a big problem.
> Good reason NOT to include this functionality in the base jEdit
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> Sent from my Windows 10 phone
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> *From: *sigzero <[email protected]>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, December 26, 2017 11:30 AM
> *To: *Michael Maxwell <[email protected]>
> *Cc: *Kedar Pawar <[email protected]>; Steve Jakob
> <[email protected]>; jedit-users
> <[email protected]>
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> *Subject: *Re: [ jEdit-users ] integrate autobrackets in jEdit
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> No, it is an "all or nothing" with completions in the plugin. It would be
> nice (but beyond me) to have an options pain with something like (which is
> what you suggested):
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> --- Autopairing ---
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> [X]  '
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> [X] "
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> [X] [
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> [X] {
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> --- Custom ---
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> [   ]    [textbox for custom paring]
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> Then you could pair what you wanted to pair.
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> --
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> Bob
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> On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Michael Maxwell <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> Not an answer to your question, but a different question. Does the plugin
> allow choosing which pairs to auto complete? If you’re not programming xml
> or html, it would be inconvenient to have it add a greater than every time
> you type a less than… another option would be a check list of such pairs,
> to include paired quotes, paired chevrons etc
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> *From: *sigzero <[email protected]>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, December 26, 2017 9:22 AM
> *To: *Kedar Pawar <[email protected]>
> *Cc: *Steve Jakob <[email protected]>; jedit-users
> <[email protected]>
> *Subject: *Re: [ jEdit-users ] integrate autobrackets in jEdit
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> Looking at the source for the FirstMate plugin, it looks rather trivial to
> an autocomplete for "<>". How does one go about "updating a plugin"? That
> would be my next question.
>
> That brings me to another. Would it benefit the jEdit community to move
> all the plugins to github to facilitate updates like this?
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> Bob
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> On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Kedar Pawar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> Thats fine. It was nice to meet the community though. Thanks for replies.
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> On 26 Dec 2017 20:28, "sigzero" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I am wondering how hard it would be to just update the plugin to include
> the functionality.
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> I don't agree with it being in the core as that's not the jEdit manifesto.
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> Bob
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> On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Kedar Pawar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> >> that You can't do many things without any plugin installed
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> do I really need a plugin for a feature that should be available in the
> editor itself??
>
> If jEdit supports syntax highlighting, multiple character sets and
> indentation, then this is not an uncommon feature to have.
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> Actually it will be nice to see this feature included in the future
> versions of jEdit. I hope the developers come to agree with that.
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> Regards.
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> On 25 December 2017 at 23:42, Steve Jakob <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> This is one of the main things that I appreciate about jEdit. A good basic
> editor that’s VERY flexible. I also appreciate the work that all of the
> maintainers and plugin authors have contributed. I feel fortunate that I
> had the opportunity to meet Slava years ago, say my thanks in person and
> share a pitcher of beer.
> :-)
>
> Merry Christmas folks,
>
> Steve Jakob
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> > On Dec 25, 2017, at 1:40 PM, Robert Schwenn <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> >
> >>  ... Is there any reason that such simple feature is not included ...
> >
> > Yes, there is a reason ;-). One of jEdit's ideas is to provide a
> sophisticated core, but most user features by plugins. You may have noticed
> that You can't do many things without any plugin installed. jEdit simply
> isn't the application for people who want a full-featured editor out of the
> box. It's for people who like to compose their "own" editor.
> >
> > Merry Christmas to all.
> > Robert
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