What is jEdit?
jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. It beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use, and it is released as free software with full source code, provided under the terms of the GPL 2.0. The jEdit core, together with a large collection of plugins, is maintained by a worldwide developer team
Highlights
- Written in Java, allowing it to run on multiple operating systems including Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS, and Windows
- Built-in macro language and extensible plugin architecture with hundreds of available macros and plugins
- Plugin manager feature for downloading and installing plugins directly within jEdit
- Supports auto-indent, syntax highlighting for over 200 languages, and a large number of character encodings including UTF-8 and Unicode
- Folding functionality for selectively hiding regions of text
- Word wrap capability
- Highly configurable and customizable features