JED is a

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that makes extensive use of the

S-Lang The S-Lang programming library is a software library for Unix, Windows, VMS, OS/2, and Mac OS X. It provides routines for embedding an interpreter for the S-Lang scripting language, and components to facilitate the creation of text-based applic ...

library. It is highly cross-platform compatible; JED runs on

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and all flavors on

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and

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. Older versions are available for

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. It is also very lightweight (meaning very parsimonious in its use of system resources), which makes it an ideal editor for older systems,

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s, etc. JED's

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mode is one of the most faithful emulations available.

Features

From the JED homepage: *Color

syntax highlighting Syntax highlighting is a feature of text editors that are used for programming, scripting, or markup languages, such as HTML. The feature displays text, especially source code, in different colours and fonts according to the category of terms ...

on color terminals *

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support *Drop-down menus on all terminals and platforms *Emulates editors

, EDT,

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

Texinfo Texinfo is a typesetting syntax used for generating documentation in both on-line and printed form (creating filetypes as , , , etc., and its own hypertext format, ) with a single source file. It is implemented by a computer program released as fr ...

(GNU info) files from within JED's info browser *A variety of programming modes (with syntax highlighting) are available including C,

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, Fortran,

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, sh,

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, IDL, DCL,

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, more *Edits TeX files with AUC-TeX style editing,

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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 ''8-bit clean'' is an attribute of computer systems, communication channels, and other devices and software, that handle 8-bit character encodings correctly. Such encoding include the ISO 8859 series and the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode. History ...

with mute/dead key support *Rectangular cut/paste; regular expressions;

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es; search replace across multiple files; multiple windows; multiple buffers; shell modes; directory editor (dired); mail; rmail; ispell; and much, much more. Variants: *"jed" is the name of the console version, whether for the Windows command-box, or for any Unix-like console. *"xjed" is a thin GUI wrapper for X. *"wjed" is a thin GUI wrapper for MS Windows.

References

External links

* *http://www.paneura.com/~dino/wjed.html Maintains wjed (i.e. jed packaged in a Windows installer). Current recommended stable release package is jed_0.99.18-s2.0.6-i154.exe *The traditional home for 3rd-party editing-modes and other S-lang extensions is at http://jedmodes.sourceforge.net/. Many of the files are bundled into the Debian package jed-extra. *A separate, more recent set of tools, editing-modes and helpfiles is at th
"RED Project", aka "Revisited jED"
Most of these files are omni-platform, but Dino's ms-Windows version is specifically supported: easier font/size changes, batfile support, etc. That site also has a pag
detailing obtaining/compiling on various platforms
including instructions to get it working o
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