Nicholas Petreley compares the programming editors Jext and J to Jedit and offers a revised opinion of the best Java for Linux.

Before I start, jEdit is a GUI text editor of some heft. It is not a replacement for using vi on the command line to edit a configuration file on a remote server. It does serve well in handling many ...

jEdit is a Java-based programmer's editor with a boatload of optional plugins, color schemes, and configuration options.

I'm sure this has been asked a million times before, but as always, search is down.I'm looking for a nice editor for development in Linux - mostly Java right now, but if it expands to C/C++, that ...

Not every programmer needs to use this tool, but if you're not interested in spending, then jEdit is a good Text Editor for computer programmers.

Figure 4: jEdit with the LilyPondTool plugin jEdit is a popular text editor for Java. Though primarily designed for programmers, jEdit has many attractions for the normal non-programming user, ...

Java SE 13 introduced text blocks as a preview feature, aimed at reducing the pain of declaring and using multi-line string literals in Java. It was subsequently refined in a second preview, with ...