To enable AntiAliasing in the TextArea, see the section called “The Text Area Pane”.

It is possible to pass command line options to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). These options can change certain things about how Java runs, such as the maximum heap size, or whether antialiasing is used in certain places.

For operating systems such as Linux where jEdit is started via a shell script, you can easily edit the jedit script and place JVM arguments in the correct place. If you are using the -jar command line option with the java command to run jEdit (which is how the default shell scripts do it), remember that the -jar parameter must be the last java option, followed immediately by the path to jedit.jar and then any jEdit command line options.

On a Windows install that uses jEdit.exe, the JVM options are located in a separate file, called jEdit.l4j.ini. Create or edit this file in the same directory as jEdit.exe and place one JVM option per line.

On Mac OS X, the jEdit.app bundle gets JVM options from a file called Contents/Info.plist, which can be edited with a text editor.

There is no complete list of options to java, since it can vary from one platform to another. Some of can be found by typing the commands java -? or man java. Common JVM options that are used with jEdit and work on all platforms are: