jed

JED is a freely available text editor for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and win9X/NT platforms. Although it is a powerful editor designed for use by programmers, its drop-down menu facility make it one of the friendliest text editors around. Hence it is ideal for composing simple email messages as well as editing complex programs in a variety of computer languages.

JED makes extensive use of the S-Lang library, which endows it with the powerful S-Lang scripting language. Some of its features are:

• Color syntax highlighting on color terminals, e.g., Linux console or a remote color terminal via dialup (as well as Xjed)
• Folding support
• Drop-down menus on ALL terminals/platforms
• 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
• A variety of programming modes (with syntax highlighting) are available including C, C++, FORTRAN, TeX, HTML, SH, python, IDL, DCL, NROFF...
• 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
• Supported on most Unix, VMS, OS/2, MSDOS (386+), win9X/NT, QNX, and BeOS systems
• 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

Name

jed

Programs

• jed
• jed-script
• rgrep
• xjed

Homepage

• https://www.jedsoft.org/jed/index.html

Version

0.99-19

License

• GNU General Public License v2.0 or later

Platforms

• i686-cygwin
• x86_64-cygwin
• x86_64-darwin
• aarch64-darwin
• i686-freebsd
• x86_64-freebsd
• aarch64-freebsd
• x86_64-solaris
• aarch64-linux
• armv5tel-linux
• armv6l-linux
• armv7a-linux
• armv7l-linux
• i686-linux
• loongarch64-linux
• m68k-linux
• microblaze-linux
• microblazeel-linux
• mips-linux
• mips64-linux
• mips64el-linux
• mipsel-linux
• powerpc-linux
• powerpc64-linux
• powerpc64le-linux
• riscv32-linux
• riscv64-linux
• s390-linux
• s390x-linux
• x86_64-linux
• aarch64-netbsd
• armv6l-netbsd
• armv7a-netbsd
• armv7l-netbsd
• i686-netbsd
• m68k-netbsd
• mipsel-netbsd
• powerpc-netbsd
• riscv32-netbsd
• riscv64-netbsd
• x86_64-netbsd
• i686-openbsd
• x86_64-openbsd
• x86_64-redox

Defined

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