The jEdit Settings Directory

jEdit stores all settings, macros, sessions and so on as files inside its settings directory. In most cases, editing these files is not necessary, since graphical tools and commands can do the job. However, being familiar with the structure of the settings directory still comes in handy in certain situations, for example when you want to copy jEdit settings between computers.

The location of the settings directory is system-specific; to find out what it is, look in the activity log (see Appendix A) for a message like the following:

[message] jEdit: Settings directory is /home/slava/.jedit

If you would like jEdit to store its settings in a different directory, you can specify the -settings switch on the command line. For example, the following will instruct jEdit to store all settings in the jedit subdirectory of the C: drive:

C:\jedit> jedit -settings=C:\jedit

The -nosettings switch will force jEdit to not look for or create a settings directory.

By default, jEdit creates the following files inside the settings directory; plugins may add more: