On Windows, jEdit comes with jEditLauncher - an optional package of components that make it easy to start jEdit, manage its command line settings, and launch files and macro scripts.
The jEditLauncher package provides three shortcuts for running jEdit: one in the desktop's Start menu, a entry in the Programs menu, and a third shortcut on your desktop. Any of these may be deleted or moved without affecting jEdit's operation. To launch jEdit, simply select one of these shortcuts as you would for any Windows application.
The jEditLauncher package includes a utility for changing the command line parameters that are stored with jEditLauncher and used every time it runs jEdit. You can change the Java interpreter used to launch jEdit, the amount of heap memory, the working directory and other command line parameters. To make these changes, select Set jEdit Parameters from the jEdit group in the Programs menu, or run jedit /p from a command line that has jEdit's installation directory in its search path. A dialog will appear that allows you to change and save a new set of command line parameters.
The package also adds menu items to the context or "right-click" menu displayed by the Windows shell when you click on a file item in the desktop window, a Windows Explorer window or a standard file selection dialog. The menu entries allow you to open selected files in jEdit, starting the application if necessary. It will also allow you to open all files in a directory with a given extension with a single menu selection. If a BeanShell macro script with a .bsh extension is selected, the menu includes the option of running that script within jEdit. If you have the JDiff plugin installed with jEdit, you can also select two files and have jEdit compare them in a side-by-side graphical display.
For a more detailed description of all features found in the jEditLauncher package, see Appendix G.