To expand an accelerator, type the accelerator keyword in the jEdit text area and select backwards to first whitespace character. So if you execute on:
> > . Alternatively, you can map the action to a shortcut and expand accelerators by keystroke. The plugin searches for the keyword from the current caret position in the textarea... firstLoop: for|
where '|' is the current caret position, the plugin will attempt to find an accelerator with the keyword for for the current edit mode.