jEditfor Mac
App info
More than a text editor
Global technical progress has stepped forward due to professional programmers: special code editors highlight language syntax and specify objects, variables, functions, and more to make their work more accessible. jEdit is such an editor, and we will tell you about it.
What is this program?
jEdit for Mac is an accessible, user-friendly, and feature-rich text editor for programmers. The program is written in Java and distributed under the GPL license. The editor is supported by a large community of developers worldwide.
Primary features
Free distribution of the product;
Wide range of available plugins;
Support for more than a hundred file formats from the most popular programming languages;
Unlimited abilities to rollback changes;
Total number of clipboards (registers);
The ability to create backup copies of project files;
Flexible customization of hotkeys;
Support for the function of parallel document viewing;
Syntax highlighting;
Support for the folding process;
The ability to fine-tune fonts, indentation, and tabs;
Search and highlight closing parenthesis;
The Find and Replace option;
Help for many encodings, including UTF-8;
Built-in file explorer with filtering and sorting options;
The ability to tune settings both for global use and for the current session (open project, file);
It is possible to change the design theme;
Multilingual interface.
Extended functionality
The primary jEdit functions are aimed at convenient code writing and maintenance. The program has various useful functions, such as viewing multiple documents simultaneously, syntax highlighting of different languages, line numbering, folding, and searching for matching open and closed tags and brackets.
In addition, the jEdit editor for Mac supports the conversion of Unicode characters in UTF-8 format, popular in web development. The program includes a comprehensive system of assigning hotkeys for almost any built-in operations. The functionality of jEdit can be extended by installing additional plugins.
The ability to program on anything
jEdit supports many specialized file formats derived from C/C++, C#, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, and even VHDL development. Code highlighting also works when interacting with the latest technologies, such as JSON objects and various modifications and dialects of JavaScript.
Conclusions
jEdit for Mac has many advantages for facilitating the work of programmers, but we should also mention several disadvantages. Namely:
The program does not integrate with GitHub, GitLab, and other version control services;
Some languages are not supported, despite the multilingual interface;
Lack of support for auto-completion functions.
However, the program combines great functionality and user-friendliness, contains no restrictions and advertisements, and is distributed free of charge. All these benefits make it a useful tool on every developer's desktop.
- Simple to use but powerful
- Excellent search and replace feature
- Lots of plugins
- Can be slow on startup
- Spell-checker inconsistent