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- <p>Here are some of the things jEdit users have said about their favorite
- editor.</p>
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- <p>I've used jEdit on an off for a while. Over the last few years I have used (in
- no particular order) Eclipse, IntelliJ, NetBeans, JBuilder, TogetherJ and emacs
- for my (mostly Java) development. There are some features I liked about each of
- these: Netbeans plugins, refactoring in Eclipse and IntelliJ, UML modelling in
- TogetherJ and customisation and extendibility Netbeans, Eclipse, JBuilder and
- emacs. However, none of these products had everything that I was looking for.</p>
- <p>I recently came back to jEdit (I'm using 4.0pre5) and was impressed with how far
- it has come. The number of plug-ins that I could easily add to jEdit gave me a
- great set of features just right for what I wanted to do. For example, at the
- moment, I am writing code that manipulates bytecode directly using BCEL and the
- Java Insight plugin is invaluable for checking the classfiles.</p>
- <p>Also, for the first time, I have really explored some of the core features more:
- I have always kept jEdit handy for its hypersearch capability but I am delighted
- with the folding feature, the dockability of the plugins and how easy it is to
- create macros.</p>
- <p>To sum up the things I like the most about jEdit are: 1. It's faster and smaller
- that any Java IDE. 2. Its customisation facilities - both macros and plugins -
- are very easy to use, yet very powerful. 3. There is an excellent set of base
- features - hypesearch and folding I like in particular. 4. The GUI is logical
- and polished. 5. There is a significant number very useful plugins that can be
- easily and seamlessly integrated. And most importantly: The combination of all
- of these points leads to a product that is greater than the sum of its parts.</p>
- <p>While it may be lacking some features that I want, the same is true for all
- other development tools I have used. The main difference, is that none of the
- other products have such an excellent foundation on which to build. Both for
- what it can do for me now, and what I am sure it will grow to in the future, I
- have decided to make jEdit my main development tool.</p>
- <p>Thanks,<br>
- Richard</p>
- <hr>
- <p>WOW.</p>
- <p>Hi.</p>
- <p>I just wanted to get that word out of the way first, as I have been
- saying it over and over to myself for the past half hour.
- Congratulations to Slava and everyone who worked on the jEdit project.
- You guys have done it. My search for that ELUSIVE editor that feels just
- right in every way is over.</p>
- <p>I have been raised on Windows, and I thought I had that "ultimate"
- editor when I found UltraEdit for windows, and I was and am very happy
- with it in almost every way. It's easy to use, very intuitive, and had
- (what I thought at the time) an exhaustive feature set. Then I started
- toying with GNU Emacs, and saw what was possible in terms of a
- programmer's editor (indentation, folding, code highlighting, etc).
- Alas, I could never get used to the key bindings, even with my own fully
- customized .emacs file. I tried in vain for a year to force my self to
- get used to Emacs, but my weak 'user-friendly' windows side always got
- the best of me and I was back in the warm and comforting arms of
- UltraEdit.</p>
- <p>That was all fine until recently when I started working at Sun, those
- guys are not really big fans of MS, vi and Emacs looked even more
- forbidding on a Solaris machine. Then I got your wonderful jEdit
- program.</p>
- <p>Quite simply, your program is the embodiment of the "Principle of Least
- Surprise." Everything is as I expect it, and just when I thought I had
- exhausted jEdit's feature set, I discovered your plug-ins architecture;
- which is, frankly, brilliant. I always wondered why Java was the
- language of choice in all my University courses. Your plug-ins
- architecture is a proof of concept showing off the extensibility and
- power that is possible with the Java 2 architecture.</p>
- <p>Thank you for writing this elegant and quite frankly breath-taking
- program. Thank you for sharing it with the everyone. Keep up the
- outstanding work.</p>
- <p>Best Regards, Le Wang</p>
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- <p>I just switched from PC to Mac and was searching for some cool tools I could
- use, as I found your jEdit package. And I'm really impressed. It's really
- easy to use and you can configure it use you like. Another thing I really
- like about it is that you can use it on every platform you like. I'm used
- Linux as my programming platform and for my university related stuff and
- Windows for playing games. Now it's really easy to program under every
- platform that has java support. You don't have to go and search binary
- packages of your editor of choice for all the platforms, you just need to
- get the java installer package and you are ready to go on every platform.
- I'm currently checking all the plugins available. So, keep on going, it's a
- very good tool!</p>
- <p>Nils Crefeld</p>
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- <p>I came across JEdit a month or so ago, and I have to say I have not used
- another editor since. This has to be the best editor I've used, and I'm not
- talking about only GPL ones here. With the addition of plug-ins, JEdit is
- one hell of an editor. In fact, I think the name JEdit is a little
- decieving, making it sound as if its a Java IDE (I know its supposed to show
- that its WRITTEN in Java...), but I have used it for everything from Java to
- shell scripts to JSP to property files.</p>
- <p>Now, there are plenty of editor/IDEs out there, free or otherwise, so what
- made me pick JEdit? This may seem like a trivial thing, but as a long time
- emacs user, I was able, in about 5 min, to create emacs-like key bindings,
- and reduce my learning curve drastically.. the ease of assigning keyboard
- shortcuts has to be one of the most inventive and useful aspects of this
- program.</p>
- <p>Keep up the great work!</p>
- <p>Thanks<br>
- Dave Johnson</p>
- <hr>
- <p>I just wanted to let you know that I recently downloaded jedit 3.1 and I
- have to say.. it's come a long, long way since the last time I tried it out.
- (Over a year ago, maybe longer.)</p>
- <p>I've been using Homesite and Textpad 4 for my PHP development, but I've
- completely switched to jedit and haven't looked back. I even have a
- co-worker switched it looks like. I have to say.. I've never seen such a
- complete, well written and near bug free java application before in my life.</p>
- <p>And the best feature of all... jedit is the *only* editor that has syntax
- highlighting for inline scripting done correctly.</p>
- <p>Thanks for jedit!</p>
- <p>Daniel Beckham</p>
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- <p>Just thought I'd drop you a note to say thanks for jEdit. I started using
- it a few months ago when I changed jobs. My current employer thinks
- "Windows Notepad" has all the editing functions one could ask for -- yes,
- it's Dibertville (*SIGH*).</p>
- <p>Anyway, without a budget, I couldn't get any of my favorite commercial
- editors, and I'll be darned if I'm going to write enterprise java apps in
- notepad! So, after browsing around a bit I found jEdit. I started it with
- limited hopes, but was impressed with the look. I added some plug-ins, and
- it got even better. I started customizing the environment, and was
- impressed with how customizable it is - wow! Anyway, it works better than
- most of the expensive custom editors I've used. Rather than spanning two
- worlds, I've dropped my CodeWarrior and SemWare editors and use jEdit at
- home, too.</p>
- <p>Thanks for taking the time to write this program, and make it available to
- the rest of us. I'm very impressed with how fast this operates - Java is a
- wonderful language, but I've often had problems with the gui apps being a
- bit sluggish . . . jEdit zips along quite nicely! Anyway, thanks again, I
- owe you a favor!!!</p>
- <p>All the best,<br>
- Mike</p>
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