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<h1>jEdit Features</h1>

<h2>General</h2>

<ul>
<li>Combines the best functionality of Unix, Windows and MacOS text editors.
<li>Runs on any operating system with a Java 1.6 or higher virtual
machine - this includes MacOS X, Linux, Unix, VMS and Windows.
<li>Efficient keyboard shortcuts for everything, with predefined keymaps for 
Emacs, Intellij IDEA, and Mac OSX <b>(5.0)</b>
<li>Comprehensive online help
<li>Unlimited undo/redo
<li>Copy and paste with an unlimited number of clipboards (known as "registers")
<li>Register contents are saved across editing sessions 
<li>"Kill ring" automatically remembers previously deleted text 
<li>Rich set of keyboard commands for manipulating entire words, lines and
paragraphs at a time
<li>"Markers" for remembering positions in files to return to later
<li>Marker locations are saved across editing sessions
<li>Any number of editor windows may be open, each window may be split into
several areas, each area can view a different file and keep track of an
independent set of buffers. Alternatively, different
locations in one file can be viewed in more than one area
<li>Multiple open windows and split windows are remembered between editing
sessions 
<li>Rectangular selection
<li>Multiple selection (sometimes known as "discontinuous" or "additive"
selection) for manipulating several chunks of text at once
<li>Word wrap
</ul>

<h2>Syntax Highlighting</h2>

<p>jEdit supports syntax highlighting for more than 200 file types. Some are listed here:</p>

<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
<tr>
<td>ActionScript</td>
<td>Ada 95</td>
<td>ANTLR</td>
<td>Apache HTTPD</td>
<td>APDL</td>
<td>AppleScript</td>
<td>ASP</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Aspect-J</td>
<td>Assembly</td>
<td>AWK</td>
<td>B formal method</td>
<td>Batch</td>
<td>BBj</td>
<td>BCEL</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>BibTeX</td>
<td>C</td>
<td>C++</td>
<td>C#</td>
<td>CHILL</td>
<td>CIL</td>
<td>COBOL</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ColdFusion</td>
<td>CSS</td>
<td>CVS Commit</td>
<td>D</td>
<td>DOxygen</td>
<td>DSSSL</td>
<td>Eiffel</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>EmbPerl</td>
<td>Erlang</td>
<td>Factor</td>
<td>Fortran</td>
<td>Foxpro</td>
<td>FreeMarker</td>
<td>Fortran</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Gettext</td>
<td>Groovy</td>
<td>Haskell</td>
<td>HTML</td>
<td>Icon</td>
<td>IDL</td>
<td>Inform</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>INI</td>
<td>Inno Setup</td>
<td>Informix 4GL</td>
<td>Interlis</td>
<td>Io</td>
<td>Java</td>
<td>JavaScript</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>JCL</td>
<td>JHTML</td>
<td>JMK</td>
<td>JSP</td>
<td>Latex</td>
<td>Lilypond</td>
<td>Lisp</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LOTOS</td>
<td>Lua</td>
<td>Makefile</td>
<td>Maple</td>
<td>ML</td>
<td>Modula-3</td>
<td>MoinMoin</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MQSC</td>
<td>NetRexx</td>
<td>NQC</td>
<td>NSIS2</td>
<td>Objective C</td>
<td>ObjectRexx</td>
<td>Occam</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Omnimark</td>
<td>Parrot</td>
<td>Pascal</td>
<td>Patch</td>
<td>Perl</td>
<td>PHP</td>
<td>Pike</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PL-SQL</td>
<td>PL/I</td>
<td>Pop11</td>
<td>PostScript</td>
<td>Povray</td>
<td>PowerDynamo</td>
<td>Progress 4GL</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Prolog</td>
<td>Properties</td>
<td>PSP</td>
<td>PV-WAVE</td>
<td>Pyrex</td>
<td>Python</td>
<td>REBOL</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Redcode</td>
<td>Relax-NG</td>
<td>RelationalView</td>
<td>Rest</td>
<td>Rib</td>
<td>RPM spec</td>
<td>RTF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ruby</td>
<td>Ruby-HTML</td>
<td>RView</td>
<td>S+</td>
<td>S#</td>
<td>SAS</td>
<td>Scheme</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>SDL/PL</td>
<td>SGML</td>
<td>Shell Script</td>
<td>SHTML</td>
<td>Smalltalk</td>
<td>SMI MIB</td>
<td>SQR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Squidconf</td>
<td>SVN Commit</td>
<td>Swig</td>
<td>TCL</td>
<td>TeX</td>
<td>Texinfo</td>
<td>TPL</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Transact-SQL</td>
<td>UnrealScript</td>
<td>VBScript</td>
<td>Velocity</td>
<td>Verilog</td>
<td>VHDL</td>
<td>XML</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>XSL</td>
<td>ZPT</td>
</tr>
</table>

There are even more contributed syntax highlighting modes at the
<a href="http://community.jedit.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=downloads&file=index&req=viewdownload&cid=9">jEdit community</a>
web site.

<h2>Source Code Editing</h2>

<ul>
<li>Intelligent bracket matching skips quoted literals and comments
<li>Auto indent
<li>Commands for shifting the indent left and right
<li>Commands for commenting out code
<li>Soft tabs option
<li>Abbreviations
<li>Folding, with two fold modes: indent-based, and explicit (where
the buffer is parsed for "{{{" and "}}}")
</ul>

<h2>Search and Replace</h2>

<ul>
<li>Both literal and regular expression search and replace supported
<li>Multiple file search and replace; search in either the current file, all
open files, or all files in a directory
<li>"HyperSearch" option to show all found matches in a list
<li>Reverse search supported
<li>Incremental search supported
<li>Option to replace occurrences of a regular expression with the return value
of a BeanShell script. As far as I know, no other text editor offers comparable
functionality!
</ul>

<h2>File Management</h2>

<ul>
<li>Any number of files can be opened at once
<li>Supports a large number of character encodings including UTF8 and UTF16
<li>Automatic detection of several character encodings
<li>Automatic compression and decompression of GZipped (.gz) files
<li>Any character encoding supported by Java can be used to load and save files
<li>Multi-threaded I/O system supports pluggable "virtual file systems" for
listing directories and loading files:

<ul>
<li>FTP plugin adds support for loading and saving files on FTP servers
<li>Archive plugin adds read-only support for loading files from ZIP and TAR
archives
</ul>

<li>Custom file system browser component used in open and save dialog boxes
<li>Powerful keyboard navigation in the file system browser
<li>Files can be deleted and renamed, and new directories can be created from
the file system browser
</ul>

<h2>Customization</h2>

<ul>
<li>Syntax highlighting modes are defined in XML files and new ones are very
easy to write
<li>Many editor settings can be set on a global, per-mode, or per-file basis
<li>Fully customizable keyboard shortcuts
<li>Fully customizable tool bar and right-click context menu
<li>Macros to automate complex editing tasks can be written in
the <a href="http://www.beanshell.org">BeanShell</a> scripting language
<li>Macros can be recorded from user actions
</ul>

<h2>Extensibility</h2>

<ul>
<li>Plugins can turn jEdit into a very advanced XML/HTML editor, or a full-fledged IDE, with compiler, code
completion, context-sensitive help, debugging, visual diff, and many language-specific tools tightly integrated with the editor. </li>

<li>More than 200 plugins are <a href="http://plugins.jedit.org">already available</a>
that add a variety of features to jEdit. </li>
<li>The "Plugin manager" feature downloads and installs plugins (and updates) from within jEdit automatically. </li>
<li>Plugin windows can either be shown as separate, top-level frames, or as
"docked windows" inside the jEdit editor window
</ul>

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