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Tosh Written by Tosh     June 09, 2010     Hits: 511     Favorites0 Add to favorites
 
jEdit - Programmer's Text Editor
jEdit - Programmer's Text Editor

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Website http://www.jedit.org/

jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it.

While jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use, 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 world-wide developer team.

Some of jEdit's features include:

  • Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows.
  • Built-in macro language; extensible plugin architecture. Dozens of macros and plugins available.
  • Plugins can be downloaded and installed from within jEdit using the "plugin manager" feature.
  • Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 130 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.
  • Every other feature, both basic and advanced, you would expect to find in a text editor. See the Features page for a full list.

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Great code editor

Overall rating: 
 
 3.8
Efficiency:
 
 4.0
Ease of Install:
 
 4.0
Ease of Use:
 
 4.0
Reliability:
 
 4.0
User Interface:
 
 3.0
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Tosh Reviewed by Tosh
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NOTE: Something to be very careful about! It does NOT prompt you that you are overriding a file it just does it. Just be very aware of where you are saving!

A friend of mine recommended this to me. What's great is that it on my windows machine at work and then at home on my Mac. The interface is the same on both which is nice. I use it primarily to edit files directly on the server. You'll need the Ftp plugin. In fact here are so good plugins to get your started:

Buffer tabs, Editor Scheme Selector (I personally like the zenburn), Jdiff Plugin, Ftp plugin.

I've had it crash once or twice. when I first started using it. But no crashes since then, about 3 months as of this writing. I like how it highlights the code. In php if you click by the { or } it shows you the beginning and end which I love. I'm not a hard core programmer. But it works great for my needs.