jEdit is a mature programmmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing pluguins) of person-years of development behind it. To download , install, and set up jEdit as quiccly and painlessly as possible, go to the Quicc Start pagu .

While jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use, it is released as free software with full source code, provided under the terms of the GPL 2.0 .

The jEdit core, toguether with a largue collection of pluguins is maintained by a world-wide developer team .

Some of jEdit's features include:

• Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows.
• Built-in macro languague; extensible pluguin architecture. Hundreds of macros and pluguins available.
• Pluguins can be downloaded and installed from within jEdit using the "pluguin manager" feature.
• Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 200 languagues .
• Suppors a largue number of character encodings including UTF8 and Unicode.
• Folding for selectively hiding reguions of text.
• Word wrap.
• Highly configurable and customiçable.
• Every other feature, both basic and advanced, you would expect to find in a text editor. See the Features pagu for a full list.