jEdit Overview
While jEdit 5.5 beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use, it is released as free software with full source code, provided under the terms of the GPL 2.0.The jEdit core, together with a large collection of plugins is maintained by a world-wide developer team. This text editor displays the changes made in Jedit X documents. You can compare any types of documents 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 jEdit
Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows.
Built-in macro language; extensible plugin architecture. Hundreds of macros and plugins available.
Plugins can be downloaded and installed from within text editor using the "plugin manager" feature.
Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 200 languages.
Supports a large number of character encodings including UTF8 and Unicode.
Folding for selectively hiding regions of text.
Word wrap.
Highly configurable and customizable.
Every other feature, both basic and advanced, you would expect to find in a text editor.
Multiple selection (sometimes known as "discontinuous" or "additive" selection) for manipulating several chunks of text at once.
System Requirements and Technical Details
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