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Jedit





Software Information

  Name jEdit
  Caption jEdit 42 showing the source of this Wikipedia article
  Author Slava Pestov
  Developer jEdit project
  Released 1998
  Latest Release Version 42final
  Latest Release Date 2004-08-28
  Latest Preview Version 43pre10
  Latest Preview Date 2007-07-12
  Operating System Java -supporting {Link without Title}
  Language English only
  Genre Text Editor
  License GPL
  Website jEditorg


jEdit is a Text Editor for programmers available under the GNU General Public License . jEdit is written in Java and runs on Mac OS X , OS/2 , Unix , VMS , and Windows . There are dozens of Plug-in s for numerous application areas. Syntax Highlighting is natively supported for over 130 File Format s (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 Macro s written in BeanShell , Jython , JavaScript and some other Scripting Language s.

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.


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