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:
Option | Effect |
---|---|
-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on | Antialias the text in AWT components. |
-Dswing.aatext=true | Antialias the text in Swing components. |
-Djedit.home=/path/to/jedit
| Sets/overrides the java System property
jedit.home to be the path to the jEdit
install. This tells jEdit where to find its site properties,
default keymaps, macros, edit modes, and documentation. You can override
this setting to create a custom install that is shared by multiple
users. See the section called “Site Properties” for more information.
|
-mx768m | Sets maximum heap size to 768 megabytes.
Adjust this value depending on your own personal needs /
plugins. On at least one platform, -Xmx768m works
when -mx768m does not (or vice-versa). |