[ jEdit-devel ] How do I point jEdit to a JDK?

I can’t find this information anywhere, in spite of two days of web searching.

There is nothing in the jEdit Help files about performing this crucial task. It states that a JDK is needed, but doesn’t
tell the user how to associate jEdit with that JDK! Someone needs to update the Help file for installing jEdit.

Of course, I can find a zillion things on the web about both jEdit and JDKs - just not how to associate the former with the latter!
Plus, nearly everything is about Windows and I am working on an iMac.

I thought perhaps a jEdit Project might have a setting where the JDK could be specified. Nope.

Maybe there’s a “back door” - some plug-in that would somehow cause jEdit to find the JDK. None that I could find.

Tried to launch jEdit in the Terminal using java.exe in the JDK with the jEdit.jar as the target - just got one error after another. “Cannot create Virtual Machine” etc.

At the end of my rope. Should I uninstall jEdit and try another editor?