jEdit 4.3pr16 - Java based text editor. (Free)

By the surfapple team at 22 November, 2008, 6:44 am | Read More: Apple | Development

jEdit 4.3pr16
jEdit is a cross platform, programmer's text editor written in Java. Developed by Slava Pestov and others, jEdit is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Features include:
  • Runs on any operating system with a Java 2 version 1.3 or higher virtual machine - this includes Windows, Unix, MacOS X and VMS.
  • 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
  • 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 Rectangular selection
  • Multiple selection (sometimes known as "discontinuous" or "additive" selection) for manipulating several chunks of text at once
  • Word wrap

WHAT'S NEW
Version 4.3pre16:
  • When the bufferSet were not sorted it was possible to have two time the same buffer in a bufferSet (Matthieu Casanova)
  • When changing the antialiasing mode to none, jEdit do not need to be restarted anymore (patch #2115400) (Dakshinamurthy Karra)
  • The standalone textarea reloads the properties of the buffer when properties are changed (patch #2115400) (Dakshinamurthy Karra)
  • When the close dialog is open with a list of dirty files, if one of those files is closed in jEdit by another thread, selecting will remove the file from the dialog (#2129419) (Matthieu Casanova)
  • It is not possible anymore to open more than one clean untitled buffer in a bufferSet (Matthieu Casanova)
  • Closed buffers were often kept in memory. (Kazutoshi Satoda)
  • much more
Full release notes are available

REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later, Java 1.5 or later.

DEVELOPER
Slava Pestov

DOWNLOADS
8034


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