Last Updated on July 11, 2021
Jed is a small, fast (faster startup than bash) and powerful text editor.
This package is completely customizable with prepared emulation modes for Emacs, CUA (similar to KDE/Gnome/OpenOffice), Borland-IDE, Brief, and EDT. It is extensible in the S-Lang scripting language (with a syntax resembling C).
Tools included are a directory editor (dired), info (browse GNU info files), mail, rmail, ispell,shell mode, and more.
It has special modes (syntax highlight, indention, compile, …) for a wide range of programming languages including Basic, C, C++, DCL, FORTRAN, IDL, Java, NROFF, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostScript, Python, SH, as well as modes for markup languages including HTML and (La)TeX (with AUC-TeX style editing and BibTeX).
Features include:
- Color syntax highlighting on color terminals.
- Folding support.
- Drop-down menus.
- 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.
- 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).
Website: www.jedsoft.org/jed
Support: Documentation
Developer: John E. Davis
License: GNU GPL
jed is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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