jed – cross-platform text editor

Last Updated on July 11, 2021

Jed is a small, fast (faster startup than bash) and powerful text editor.

This package is completely customizable with prepared emulation modes for Emacs, CUA (similar to KDE/Gnome/OpenOffice), Borland-IDE, Brief, and EDT. It is extensible in the S-Lang scripting language (with a syntax resembling C).

Tools included are a directory editor (dired), info (browse GNU info files), mail, rmail, ispell,shell mode, and more.

It has special modes (syntax highlight, indention, compile, …) for a wide range of programming languages including Basic, C, C++, DCL, FORTRAN, IDL, Java, NROFF, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostScript, Python, SH, as well as modes for markup languages including HTML and (La)TeX (with AUC-TeX style editing and BibTeX).

Features include:

• Color syntax highlighting on color terminals.
• Folding support.
• Drop-down menus.
• 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.
• 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.
• Rectangular cut/paste.
• Regular expressions.
• Incremental searches.
• Search replace across multiple files.
• Multiple windows.
• Multiple buffers.
• Shell modes.
• Directory editor (dired).

Website: www.jedsoft.org/jed
Support: Documentation
Developer: John E. Davis
License: GNU GPL

jed is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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