JEdit

jEdit is a text editor for programmers available under GNU-license. It is written in Java and runs on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and a number of other operating systems. There are dozens of plugins for numerous application areas. Syntax highlighting is supported for over 130 file formats. jEdit supports UTF-8 and many other encodings.

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

See also

• List of text editors
• Comparison of text editors

External links

• jEdit
• The wikipedia plugin for jEdit