Mac OSX (10.4.7 - intel) jEdit 4.3 Pre 5 If I type '/' + enter in the File-Browser I get the file list in the attatched screen shot. This is from the activity log: [debug] WorkThread: Running in work thread: [id=16,run=org.gjt.sp.jedit.browser.BrowserIORequest[type=LIST_DIRECTORY,vfs=org.gjt.sp.jedit.io.FileVFS@8c40ee,path1=/opt/development/evt/conf/ibatis/,path2=null]] [debug] VFSFileNameField: doComplete(roots:,,false [debug] WorkThread: Running in work thread: [id=19,run=org.gjt.sp.jedit.browser.BrowserIORequest[type=LIST_DIRECTORY,vfs=org.gjt.sp.jedit.io.FileRootsVFS@d74138,path1=roots:,path2=null]] In 4.2 Final, just typeing '/' took me to the root directory "/".