============================================================================ Readme for the Debian Jed packages ============================================================================ Jed is a highly customizable editor for programmers by John E. Davis. It's small, fast and mighty and extensible in the C-like "S-Lang" language. Find out more about Jed on its homepage http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/ . Jed for Debian comes in four packages jed console version of Jed xjed stand-alone X application (failsave: falls back to console app if DISPLAY is not set) jed-common Files used by both jed and xjed jed-extra User provided extensions, mainly from http://jedmodes.sf.net/ Jed was debianized by Charl P. Botha and is now maintained by the Debian JED Group: http://pkg-jed.alioth.debian.org/ email: Particular features of Debian Jed ================================= Startup scheme -------------- Debian Jed's startup scheme provides for startup code from other packages. Instead of a config file, we use a config directory: At startup, Jed will evaluate all "*.sl" scripts in /etc/jed.d/. The sysadmin can modify or add files in /etc/jed.d/ for site-wide configuration. See README.Debian-startup for details. Jed_Home_Directory ------------------ Debian Jed supports a per-user "~/.jed/" application directory in accordance with the file hierarchy standard (FHS 2.3). However, Jed will not create such a directory. Users are encouraged to create the directory ".jed/" in their home directory. It will become the `Jed_Home_Directory' for personal Jed-related files, e.g. jed.rc user startup configuration (move the jed.rc from the examples/ here and modify to your needs) .jedrecent last opened files (autogenerated by recent.sl) lib/ library of personal extension scripts (home-made or downloaded) and customised versions of standard scripts To use this library dir, you need to add it to the jed library path in jed.rc with e.g.:: set_jed_library_path(path_concat(Jed_Home_Directory, "lib") + "," + get_jed_library_path() or (with jed-extra installed):: add_libdir(path_concat(Jed_Home_Directory, "lib")); You can use it also for DFA highlight cache files setting:: Jed_Highlight_Cache_Dir = path_concat(Jed_Home_Directory, "lib"); templates/ optional dir for templates (with jed-extra) Some frequently asked questions ------------------------------- (see also txt/jed_faq.txt) Q: My color settings are not working. What's wrong? A: If you're using set_color() calls without loading a pre-defined scheme with set_color_scheme(), Jed falls back to the _Jed_Default_Color_Scheme. To fix your problem, you can set _Jed_Color_Scheme, like _Jed_Color_Scheme = "cool". .. Copyright © 2006 the Debian JED Group Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (ver. 2 or later) Last update 2008-02-21 Guenter Milde