jEdit 5.7.0

Free Download Jedit for Windows PC. It is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time spent developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. Go to the Quick Start page to download, install, and set up jEdit as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Overview of the jEdit

While jEdit is superior to many expensive development tools in terms of features and ease of use, it is released as free software with complete source code provided under the terms of GPL 2.0.

A global developer team maintains the jEdit core and a large collection of plugins. This text editor displays the changes made in Jedit X documents. You can compare any type of document that can be read with Jedit, including plain text of various text encodings or rich text documents. You can also merge the differences instantly using its merge button or the contextual menu.

Features of text editor

• Written in Java, it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS, and Windows.
• Built-in macro language; extensible plugin architecture. Hundreds of macros and plugins are available.
• Plugins can be downloaded and installed from within the text editor using the "plugin manager" feature.
• Auto indent and syntax highlighting for more than 200 languages.
• It supports a large number of character encodings, including UTF8 and Unicode.
• Folding for selectively hiding regions of text.
• Word wrap.
• Highly configurable and customizable.
• You would expect to find every other basic and advanced feature in a text editor.
• Multiple selection (sometimes known as "discontinuous" or "additive" selection) is used to manipulate several chunks of text at once.

System Requirements

• Operating System: Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7
• Processor: Minimum 1 GHz Processor (2.4 GHz recommended)
• RAM: 2GB (4GB or more recommended)
• Free Hard Disk Space: 200MB or more is recommended
• Java: 11 or later