[HN Gopher] JEdit - Programmer's Text Editor ___________________________________________________________________ JEdit - Programmer's Text Editor Author : Tomte Score : 85 points Date : 2021-11-20 19:57 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.jedit.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.jedit.org) | ronnier wrote: | I just want notepad++ for the mac | slavapestov wrote: | BBEdit? | npteljes wrote: | I switched to Geany from Notepad++ when I moved to Linux, and | they have macOS build too. Features are not on par, but at | least the editor component is the same (Scintilla), and I could | set up some of the plugin functionalities as command line | functions (like formatting JSON with jq). | protomyth wrote: | I always wanted PFE for the mac, but I did a lot of data | munging that code editors tended to be bad at. | slavapestov wrote: | I started working on jEdit when I was 14 and developed it for 6 | years or so. While I haven't used it in a very long time I'm | humbled to see that it is still being maintained and has users. | ldiracdelta wrote: | I still use it. Best directory regex search and replace ever. | a2800276 wrote: | I look back at JEdit very fondly. The whole project was very | inspiring to me, I was always impressed at the results you were | able to achieve. | | Just out of curiosity: what editor do you use nowadays? | thedoctor79 wrote: | A great tool, trully a programmer's text editor. Used it for | more than 10 years, it seemed like it had plugins for virtually | eveything. I remember one time we had to work with huge XML | files, like 100 MB in size or so, and everyone was grepping | them or struggling with other editors, while jEdit had that | nice XML parser plugin which showed a nice hierarchical tree :) | Thanks for all the work put into it. Nowadays I tend to | gravitate towards KDevelop and others but I hope jEdit | continues on. | karmajunkie wrote: | you were 14?! i always pictured you as much older back in those | days when i was an avid user of it. | | i found you on twitter awhile back, it brought back a lot of | memories of being the only guy in the office who insisted on | ecshewing IDEs in favor of something light yet capable like | jedit. it was truly ahead of its time. | bitexploder wrote: | Thanks for all the work. I used it for many years as my primary | software development editor. | protomyth wrote: | It had the feel of PFE for me which I loved when I was on | Windows. You did great work. | unicas wrote: | I use it for ages (besides emacs). Properly configured it can | stick with emacs at ease. The console plugin, however, might | benefit from a brush up, e.g. FX, so it could display | MathJax/KaTeX or PNG ... | diogenesjunior wrote: | For the longest, I have been looking for a text editor that uses | some of the themes used in highlight.js [0]. I can never seem to | find one whenever I look. | | 0: https://highlightjs.org/ | armchairhacker wrote: | Another good Java text editor is | https://github.com/bobbylight/RText. It's open-source w/ very | good documentation and you can embed the IDE (RSyntaxTextArea) in | your own app. | monocasa wrote: | Oh damn, that brings me back. First editor I used beyond notepad | for coding. Was required for my AP CS class in high school. | blibble wrote: | I remember hating Swing when it was new | | but my god it's excellent UX wise compared to pretty much any | website | sys_64738 wrote: | But it's written in Java. No thanks. | nimbix wrote: | I've been using jEdit for probably around 18 years until around a | year ago when I fianlly switched to VSCode because, | unfortunately, it just couldn't keep up with all the modern | development in the dev tools space. | | There are two features I really miss from jEdit: | | * "dumb" autocomplete that will include any word in any open | buffer, even if it's a different type (html/css/js). VSCode kindo | of has word based autocomplete, but expected matches are just not | there on third of teh time. | | * HyperSearch (search result in the sidebar) when searching in | the current buffer only. So much better than having one search | mode for single buffer, and a completely different one when | serching through multiple files. | wisemanwillhear wrote: | I keep an install of jEdit just for the HyperSearch feature. | | The feature that got me hooked on jEdit many years ago was the | ability to define custom syntax highlighting for our custom | mini-languages with powerful directives that other highlighting | solutions couldn't match without building plugins/extensions. | djbusby wrote: | Long time jEdit user too sorta "forced" go VSCode for similar | reasons and missing the exact same two features. | | Any ideas how to get those in VSCode? Anyone know any like | plugins? | I_complete_me wrote: | As a non-programmer, I am surprised that I have never heard of | this until now. I use vim, what would make me change / be | interested in jEdit? | spicybright wrote: | Unless you don't use features in vim that are available in | jEdit, I don't see why it would be worth switching. | | I'm curious though, I don't meet many non-coders using Vim. | What's your main use case? What features do you use a lot in | Vim for what you do? | tkgally wrote: | Just to note that there's another long-established text editor, | for Macs only, with a very similar name: Jedit. | | http://www.artman21.com/en/jeditOmega/ | | While this Jedit has features for programmers, I think it really | shines as an editor for people who write or work with Japanese | text. I've been using it on a daily basis for many years. | badsectoracula wrote: | I used jEdit years ago as my editor of choice for pretty much any | OS i used and it was very flexible with a lot of extensions (most | likely still is). I remember a friend of mine saying something | along the lines of "it isn't a true editor until you can read | email off it" (which i guess was his paraphrasing of JWZ's "Every | program attempts to expand until it can read mail" though i | didn't knew it at the time) as an attempt to tell me how Emacs | was better, but, sure enough, i quickly found an email plugin for | jEdit :-P. Though i never used that one, i did use the IRC client | plugin a bit. | liafail wrote: | Seeing the name and being unfamiliar with "J"Edit, I had hopes | this was an open source version of the 1982-~2018 commercial | "K"Edit editor. | | I've been using Kedit for some time as my daily editor, but its | lack of UTF-8 support is becoming more dire by the year. Still, | the IBM ISPF/Xedit roots and Rexx support make for a powerful | environment. An overview of such "Eastern Orthodox" text editors | is on SoftPanorama: | | http://www.softpanorama.org/Editors/eoe.shtml | | A fascinating account of someone productively using Kedit is | included in the following article by John McPhee, of all people: | | https://archive.mith.umd.edu/engl668k/wp-content/uploads/201... | marcodiego wrote: | Non anti-aliased fonts... That alone makes it non-atractive. | hermes8329 wrote: | It was really hideous. My first thought when reading the title | was remembering how terrible it was and thinking "yuuuuck" | kitd wrote: | It has anti-aliased fonts. | tablespoon wrote: | > Non anti-aliased fonts... | | Sign me up. Font aliasing is the devil's work. | akx wrote: | There is a screenshot explicitly titled "subpixel antialised | fonts". http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=screenshot&image=36 | discreteevent wrote: | Great editor. Everything just worked as you thought it should. | The plugin system was clean and powerful. The FTP plugin was a | lifesaver. Used jedit to reverse engineer the design from a | legacy C++ codebase on Solaris. I don't think I would have | managed it in vim. | jrm4 wrote: | I started using this(still do) as the "recommended default" for | my intro web design and programming classes, mostly because I'm a | long time Linux user, and this would run exactly the same for all | of us everywhere. Solid stuff, thank you to the devs. | willvarfar wrote: | I remember being 'caught' developing for Metrowerks (anyone | remember that?) using jEdit. They smirked. | | I used jEdit to do all my coding (mostly C/C++ in those days) | from the late 90s until finally going Jetbrains just a couple of | years ago. | | I still use it regularly when I just want to edit a file or use | the jdiff plugin without starting a project and all the other | speed bumps that IDEs put in your way. | bellyfullofbac wrote: | User since maybe mid 00's here, I still load it to use the | rectangular select and multi-line cursor, and HyperSearch still | beats grep because I can jump to all instances of a searched | word and see the context before/after it (yeah grep has a flag | for this, but who knows how many lines the context should be). | willvarfar wrote: | Yeap the rectangular select and multi-line cursor thing! And | the find replace with new lines. And so much else that | mainstream IDEs seem to still struggle with! | marcrosoft wrote: | Nostalgic. This was my first text editor. I used it to learn | programming in perl. | paulryanrogers wrote: | A great editor which works everywhere Java does. I used it for | almost a decade alongside a few embedded SDKs, and on Mac, Linux, | and Windows. The ability to quickly define my own syntax file was | great for working with a niche language like Verifone TCL. | | Find/replace among many files at once was also in the normal find | dialog, with a solid regexp implementation. Which seemed rare for | the era in which I used it. | | These days we have VS Code and JetBrains so I don't use it any | more. Still, much nostalgia. | bigmattystyles wrote: | Sure but these (VSCode / JB) don't just load instantly, for me, | on Windows, it's still Notepad++ - on Linux, which is rare for | me, I still just vim | mavelikara wrote: | Similar story with me too. Used it for over a decade, but don't | use it any more. | | The original author, Slava Pestov, created Factor programing | language and was working on Swift when I last heard. | _pmf_ wrote: | There was a time when a Swing application felt heavyweight, but | today, it feels extremely lightweight (including JVM startup). | | (Not IntelliJ, which is horrible in every regard.) | paulryanrogers wrote: | > (Not IntelliJ, which is horrible in every regard.) | | Curious, why is IntelliJ so thoroughly bad? | wildrhythms wrote: | This brings back memories. My professor (many years ago now) | had us use JEdit when learning Java because it lets us inspect | objects at runtime. Obviously not 'industry standard', but very | instrumental in learning about data structures and debugging. | So happy to see software like this still being maintained. | jensgk wrote: | A great light weight editor! I still use it from time to time. | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-11-20 23:00 UTC)