If you are a programmer, you should try jEdit. This is a great text editor for you.
Main features:
- Combines the best functionality of Unix, Windows and MacOS text editors.
- Runs on any operating system with a Java 2 version 1.3 or higher virtual machine – this includes MacOS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows.
- Efficient keyboard shortcuts for everything
- Comprehensive online help
- Unlimited undo/redo
- Copy and paste with an unlimited number of clipboards (known as "registers")
- Register contents are saved across editing sessions (4.2)
- "Kill ring" automatically remembers previously deleted text (4.2)
- Rich set of keyboard commands for manipulating entire words, lines and paragraphs at a time
- "Markers" for remembering positions in files to return to later
- Marker locations are saved across editing sessions
- Any number of editor windows may be open, each window may be split into several areas, each area can view a different file. Alternatively, different locations in one file can be viewed in more than one area
- Multiple open windows and split windows are remembered between editing sessions (4.2)
- Rectangular selection
- Multiple selection (sometimes known as "discontinuous" or "additive" selection) for manipulating several chunks of text at once
- Word wrap
jEdit supports syntax highlighting for more than 130 file types:
- Intelligent bracket matching skips quoted literals and comments
- Auto indent
- Commands for shifting the indent left and right
- Commands for commenting out code
- Soft tabs option
- Abbreviations
- Folding, with two fold modes: indent-based, and explicit (where the buffer is parsed for "{{{" and "}}}")
More features of jEdit.
Java 2 version 1.5 or later is required for all versions of jEdit.
