JED (text editor)

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JED
Design by	John E. Davis
Latest release	0.99-18 / April 2, 2006
OS	Unix, OpenVMS, MS-DOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, Windows
Genre	Text editor
License	GPL
Website	http://www.jedsoft.org/jed

JED is a text editor that makes extensive use of the S-Lang library. It is highly cross-platform compatible; Jed runs on Windows and all flavors on Linux/Unix. Older versions are available for DOS. It is also very lightweight (meaning very parsimonious in its use of system resources), which makes it an ideal editor for older systems, embedded systems, etc. Jed's Emacs mode is universally respected as one of the most faithful emulations available.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Features

From the JED homepage:

Color syntax highlighting on color terminals
Folding support
Drop-down menus on all terminals/platforms
Emulation of Emacs, EDT, WordStar, Borland, and Brief editors
Extensible in the C-like S-Lang language making the editor completely customizable
Capable of reading GNU info files from within JED's info browser
A variety of programming modes (with syntax highlighting) are available including C, C++, Fortran, TeX, HTML, sh, Python, IDL, DCL, nroff …
Edit TeX files with AUC-TeX style editing (BiBTeX support too)
Asynchronous subprocess support allowing one to compile from within the editor
Built-in support for the GPM mouse driver on Linux console
Abbreviation mode and Dynamic abbreviation mode
8 bit clean with mute/dead key support
Rectangular cut/paste; regular expressions; incremental searches; search replace across multiple files; multiple windows; multiple buffers; shell modes; directory editor (dired); mail; rmail; ispell; and much, much more.