the file may be saved as Western (ISO Latin 1), but when opening in
jEdit, the information at the bottom of the window persistently
shows Mac Roman, and the special characters are screwed. (This
appears to happen whether the jEdit default file preference is set
to Western (ISO Latin 1) or not.)
You MUST the character set the file was saved in with the default
character set for jEdit. There is no heuristic way for an editor to
figure out the difference between MacRoman and 8859-1 just by looking
at the file contents. They are both 256 byte extended Roman character
sets. How could it know?
If a file was saved in MacRoman, you have to open it in MacRoman
mode, change the buffer encoding to 8859-15 (see next paragraph as to
why), then save it. The great thing about jEdit is that you can
record this whole routine as a macro, assign it to a key, and quickly
apply it to many files. Or you could extend the macro yourself to
apply it to a whole directory automatically. Try doing that in BBEdit...
You are actually better off using 8859-15 as the default character
encoding. It is the same as 8859-1, but replaces some little-used
characters with some missing European language characters. More
importantly, it has an official place for the Euro symbol, and 4D is
using that encoding it seems when converting to ISO.
As to the whole debate about BBEdit vs. jEdit: from list members'
points of view, what are the convincing benefits of switching
editors, (excluding syntax highlighting)?
In no particular order:
macros
project viewer plugin
code folding
syntax highlighting
XML plugin
You should not underestimate the importance of syntax highlighting.
It is easier to program with syntax highlighting because you can
visually parse your code more easily, and you get instant visual
feedback as to the syntactic correctness of what you are writing.
Also, it does auto-indentation after control structures. The overall
experience is much better than without.
The project viewer plugin is fantastic, it saves you a lot of trips
to the open dialog. Code folding is great at times. The XML plugin is
great when writing HTML. It does tag balancing and stuff like that.
I used BBEdit for years with Active4D, and once I got used to jEdit I
never looked back (at BBEdit) and never missed it. Give it a chance.
Regards,
Aparajita
www.aparajitaworld.com
"If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
- Sri Chinmoy | www.srichinmoylibrary.com
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