[HN Gopher] JEdit - Programmer's Text Editor
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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.
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