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init.lisp

Starting (officially) with version 0.20.0, j loads the file ~/.j/init.lisp (Unix) or C:\.j\init.lisp (Windows) on startup if it exists. This is done after the user's preferences, theme, and custom key maps (if any) have been loaded.

The following commands are officially supported:

        global-map-key key command => generalized-boolean
        global-unmap-key key => generalized-boolean
        map-key-for-mode key command mode => generalized-boolean
        unmap-key-for-mode key mode => generalized-boolean

You can use these commands to make minor changes to the default key mappings without having to define a full set of custom key maps (see Key Mappings).

For these commands, the key parameter is the name of the key or key combination to be mapped or unmapped (e.g. "F7", "Ctrl Shift G", "J"). When in doubt, you can use insertKeyText to insert the appropriate text string. The command parameter is the name of the command to be mapped (e.g. "openFile", "cyclePaste", "jdkHelp"). The mode parameter is the name of the mode, as displayed in the status bar when that particular mode is in effect in the current buffer (e.g. "Java", "HTML", "Plain Text").

Some examples:

        (global-map-key "Mouse-1" "mouseSetPoint")
        (global-unmap-key "F3")
        (map-key-for-mode "Alt Mouse-1" "mouseFindTag" "Java")
        (unmap-key-for-mode "F4" "perl")

If you make changes to init.lisp while j is running, you can use executeCommand, mapped by default to Alt X, to reload init.lisp without restarting j, for example:

        (load "/home/peter/.j/init.lisp")

or:

        (load "C:\\.j\\init.lisp")