Over the last couple of days I installed the 1.0 preview release of Firefox and Jedit 4.2 using the windows installer. Firefox is a great browser. I especially like its conformance to standards, tabs, and small size. Live bookmarks is a fascinating new feature which I learned about by accident. When I went to one of my websites I found a RSS down in the lower right hand corner of the browser status bar. Firefox had figured out that the site had an rss feed and was willing to add the rss feed to my bookmarks. I added the feed to my bookmarks and then found that I could view the posted items via the browser.
I installed the Jedit 4.2 again recently. My previous verions had some files types associated with Jedit. Since I had uninstalled the old versions prior to installing the new version I had lost the file type associations. Unfortunately after installing the new platform independent version I could not associate file types. So I researched the problem and found that the jedit launcher was no longer part of the jedit package. I found a user supplied alternative and it worked but it was a little clunky. For awhile I seriously thought about fixing the clunky version. I even downloaded a compiler! Then I did a little more research and found the answer. If you use the windows installer version to install jedit it will add registry entries to make jedit available on the context menu. So I downloaded the windows installer version and installed it. I was almost there. I could now right click on a file and use the “Open with jedit” option. Since I was almost there I did a little more research and figured out how to associate a file type with a java program. I had to use a bat file but I can now double click on a file to edit it with jedit. Whew!