jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java. It uses the Swing toolkit for the GUI and can be configured as a rather powerful IDE through the use of its plugin architecture.

Features

  • Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, Unix, VMS and Windows.
  • Built-in macro language; extensible plugin architecture.
  • Hundreds of plugins can be downloaded and installed from within jEdit using the plugin manager feature.
  • Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 200 languages.
  • Supports a large number of character encodings including UTF8 and Unicode.
  • Folding for selectively hiding regions of text.
  • Word wrap.
  • Highly configurable and customizable.
  • See http://www.jedit.org/?page=features for more ...

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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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  • What a great editor. I don't understand why it is not more in widespread use. I like it as much as emacs or vi. And writing your own macros is easy and very powerful ; it's much easier than in emacs !
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  • I use jEdit all the time, but version 5.6.0 is very unstable in Windows (try open some ten documents, search for a common word, and then try view the results in each file, my 5.6 program crashed on that). I replaced it by version jEdit 5.5 and that works so far as it always did. Great programmer editor if you know RegExp! --- --- --- P.S. Stick to the default Metal look and feel, and no "experimental features" (strangely enough in 5.5 you can't copy paste in the search field with other look and feels).
  • Thank you very much for the free open source program!
  • cool editor!!
  • Very extensible, and perfect for developers.
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Languages

Korean, French, Czech, English, Chinese (Simplified), German, Japanese, Russian

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Java Swing

Programming Language

Java

Related Categories

Java Text Editors, Java Software Development Software, Java Web Development Software

Registered

1999-12-06