Currently, adding new modes involves some pretty complicated steps:
1. Putting the files in the right place
2. Editing the catalog
To make this better, jEdit should offer a "Install mode" menu where users can select
a file which jEdit them puts int he right place.
Also, jEdit shouldn't depend on a catalog file or at least it shouldn't require users
to edit it themselves.
I suggest that jEdit should load all modes automatically. Please move the FILE_NAME_GLOB
option to the root MODE element of the mode.
If a mode consists of several files, they should be put into a single JAR file with
the XML being in mode.xml in the root of the archive.
Dropping a mode file/archive into the mode folder should be enough to install it.
If necessary, you can add a prefs page where modes can be en-/disabled.
It would also be nice to wrap the loading of a mode in a single try-catch and disable
the mode if there were any errors loading it. Currently, problems in the mode. I forgot
to copy a DTD file that was referenced 50 times and that forced me to click 50 error
dialogs...
| Submitted | digulla - 2013-07-26 - 13:14:10z | Assigned | nobody |
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| Priority | 5 | Category | None |
| Status | Open | Group | None |
| Resolution | Accepted | Visibility | No |
| 2013-10-22 - 20:07:09z ezust |
These are all excellent suggestions. I never liked the way that the mode file didn't have its own first-line-glob info in the file itself. Any volunteers? |
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