The jEdit community site also provides a great wealth of information for jEdit users; you can find user-contributed macros here, along with jEdit-related news, message boards, various downloads and links, and much, much more. Finally, if you want to chat with other jEdit users, install the IRC plugin for jEdit! This allows you to start a chat.
jEdit Editor's Review
- Supports both Classic OS and Mac OS X, AppleScript, Multi-Style, Split Editing Window, Multiple Undo, HTML Coloring, Sherlock FCB Search, Book Marking, Paragraph Formatting, Object Embedding.
- Jedit X Standard 2.4 for Mac is free to download from our application library. The following version: 2011.0 is the most frequently downloaded one by the program users. This application's bundle is identified as jp.co.artman21.jeditxs. This Mac download was scanned by our built-in antivirus and was rated as safe.
I am impressed by the syntax highlight engine that has been implemented into this program. It can recognize more that 130 file types. Because of this reason this application is called: 'the programmer's text editor' by its producers.
The source code editing engine is simply remarkable and the syntax highlight can recognize also a lot of functions that are typical for all kind of programming languages. The fact that is a Java based program means portability and this is a good thing if you are programming on other platforms. On the other hand, it has slow startups because of the Java engine.
Jedit X For Mac Mojave
The keyboard shortcuts are implemented very well. I could complete most of the text editing jobs without the need of learning the shortcuts because they are common for most of the text editors.
Another nice thing is the support for unlimited clipboards. You won't have to limit yourself with a single clipboard especially when you have to paste many advanced structures.
The interface is quite well designed and it's pretty ergonomic. The only thing that I really miss is a tabbed interface because the drop-down menu with all the opened documents isn't that inspired.
The 'Search and Replace' engine is one of the best that has been implemented into a text editor. The functionality is simply remarkable.
Jedit X For Mac 10.10
Pluses: is a full featured text editor, it has a wide support for syntax highlight for more that 130 file types.
Drawbacks / flaws: it has a very slow startup speed because it runs into a Java Virtual Machine.
In conclusion: you can use this tool in order to complete your every day text editing job. You can also try some other Open Source alternatives such as Carbon Emacs or Smultron, or a commercial solution referred as 'the missing text editor on Mac OS X', TextMate.