jEdit 4.3.1

Rated 40/50 by Jorpheus at Mar 13, 2008

Really is pretty good, but I miss tabs. Very much so. (Yes, I know, plugins. Nonetheless.)

Rated 40/50 by anonymouscowturd at Mar 15, 2008

Blast. The tabs plugin is broke in this version. Now i lost my most loved feature. Still good, but my tabs....(sob...)

Rated 50/50 by lordmachiavelli at Apr 16, 2008

"Awsome" 45,000 downloads (as I'm writing this), and only 7 votes and one other review? I guess y'all know how good it is already! But seriously, the plug-ins are what truly make this such an incredible product. Hard to believe it's all free.

Rated 50/50 by LostHope777 at Jul 9, 2008

"Very Good" For a Java-based text editor, it is very useful for programming and such.

Rated 30/50 by roj at Aug 12, 2008

One word: UGH! Screen repaint speed is ridiculous. Then again, what do you expect form Java. Machine was a Athlon64 4400+ w/4Gb and an ATI X800 under XP SP3. THREE stars.

Rated 30/50 by Nighted at Nov 19, 2008

Blah...I hate java apps. Tried this before, it's horrible! Ok if you're on Linux though, as if you really have much else to chose from. One thing I never see is people complaining about having to install java, but all the time people b**** about .NET.

Rated 50/50 by Nahkanunna at Nov 20, 2008

roj: use the following to start it up: (with modifications to your specific environment) there's some issues with paint speed, but this at least cures it for me: E:\Progs\base\Java\jdk1.7.0\bin\javaw.exe -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -Xms64M -Xmx192M -jar "e:\progs\jedit.jar" -reuseview Quality work as always, plugins enhance it the same way Firefox, TB etc. NIce

Rated 40/50 by anonymouscowturd at Nov 20, 2008

@Roj, if you turn off the installed theme and just use the Windows native theme everything is fine. You're right though, if you do use any of the skin themes e.g. Metal etc, it really does slow down the repaint. @Nighted, Yeah, it is really unfair. And truthfully speaking i think the .Net framework is streets ahead of Java as well. Anway for this editor if you spend some time configuring it i think you'll find it is simply head and shoulders above any of the other OS native editors out there. Back to the review or sorts. This version seems to have a few problems updating plugins. Everyelse though seems fine.

Rated 50/50 by anonymouscowturd at Jul 7, 2009

This was and still is a brilliant editor. The only issue i have with this is the speed of development which is a tad slower than continental drift. It's been about 2 years since the last major update if i recall correctly. That said this is still absolutely solid i've never had any big problems with it other than the odd plugin that is outdated.

Rated 50/50 by anonymouscowturd at Jan 4, 2010

Wow! 5 Years in the making. Hate the sub-glacial development speed, but then it is already very mature so i guess that doesn't reduce it's usability or functionality. At least it is good, or rather very good. By far the best editor (not including IDEs) but it is heavy weight. Knocks spots off Notepad++, and that's saying something.