JED (text editor)

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Original author(s) John E. Davis Type Text editor		Written in C, S-Lang

Stable release 0.99-19 / December 13, 2009; 7 years ago (2009-12-13) Repository git.jedsoft.org/git/jed.git Operating system Unix, OpenVMS, DOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, Windows

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 and 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 one of the most faithful emulations available.

Features

From the JED homepage:

Color syntax highlighting on color terminals

Code folding support

Drop-down menus on all terminals and platforms

Emulates editors Emacs, EDT, WordStar, Borland, Brief

Extensible in the C-like language S-Lang, making the editor highly customizable

Can read Texinfo (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, Perl, Python, IDL, DCL, nroff, more

Edits TeX files with AUC-TeX style editing, BiBTeX support

Asynchronous subprocess support allowing one to compile from within the editor

Built-in support for the GPM mouse driver on Linux console

Abbreviation and dynamic abbreviation modes

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.

References

JED (text editor) Wikipedia

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