jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it.
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.
View full history Series and milestones
trunk series is the current focus of development.
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jedit source package in Xenial
Version 5.3.0+dfsg-1 uploaded -
jedit source package in Trusty
Version 5.1.0+dfsg-1 uploaded -
jedit source package in Precise
Version 4.4.2+dfsg-1 uploaded -
jedit source package in Oracular
Version 5.5.0+dfsg-2 uploaded -
jedit source package in Noble
Version 5.5.0+dfsg-2 uploaded
