JEdit

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jEdit
jEdit 4.2 showing the source of this Wikipedia article.
jEdit 4.2 showing the source of this Wikipedia article.
Author: Slava Pestov
Developer: jEdit project
Initial release: 1998
Latest release: 4.2final / 2004-08-28
Preview release: 4.3pre8 / 2006-11-08
OS: Java-supporting [1]
Use: Text editor
License: GPL
Website: jEdit.org
The correct title of this article is jEdit. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

jEdit is a text editor for programmers available under the GNU General Public License. jEdit is written in Java and runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and a number of other operating systems. There are dozens of plug-ins for numerous application areas. Syntax highlighting is natively supported for over 130 file formats (support for additional formats can be added manually using XML files). jEdit supports UTF-8 and many other encodings.

jEdit is highly customizable and can be extended with macros written in BeanShell, Jython, JavaScript and some other scripting languages.

The founding author of jEdit was Slava Pestov, who has currently left the development to the community. The editor has been in development since 1998.

[edit] See also

To find out how to use jEdit with Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Text editor support.

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