JED is a

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that makes extensive use of the S-Lang 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 DOS. 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

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on color terminals *

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

, EDT,

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, 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,

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, sh,

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, Python,

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, 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;

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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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