jEdit is not just for programmers; Randall Wood is using it to write a book.

jEdit 4.2final is now available. Major changes since jEdit 4.1. If you're upgrading from jEdit 4.1, remove all plugins, and reinstall them.

jEdit 4.2pre15 is now available. This will be the last pre-release before 4.2final. Please report bugs!

I have started an effort to formalize the quality assurance methodology of jEdit. If you'de like to help out, surf your way over to the Quality Assurance Overview.

jEdit 4.2pre14 is now available. This release fixes a number of bugs.

jEdit 4.2pre13 is now available for download. This release fixes the infamous ClassCastException on startup, as well as a number of other bugs.

jEdit 4.2pre12 is now available download. This is mostly a bug fix release, with a few updated syntax highlighting modes.

jEdit 4.2pre11 is now available for download.

This release fixes a show-stopper bug in pre10. The JAR file included in
the installer was not completely up-to-date, and it had a property file
lossage bug.

jEdit 4.2pre10 is now available for download. This release features a large number of bug fixes, several new and updated macros, and improved documentation. jEdit 4.2final is getting closer, so report those bugs, and come say hi on irc.freenode.net #jedit with the IRC plugin! A full changelog is available.

jEdit 4.2pre9 is now available. I expect to have a couple more pre-releases, then 4.2final -- so send in your bug reports, and come by #jedit on irc.FreeNode.net to say hi.

jEdit 4.2pre8 is now available. This is a bug fix release. It also includes BeanShell 2.0b1, and 5 new syntax highlighting modes.

jEdit 4.2pre7 is now available for your bug-seeking pleasure. This release adds several new syntax highlighting modes and fixes a large number of bugs.

The What's new in jEdit 4.2 document has been updated to include user-visible changes. If you're still using 4.1, read this to find out what you're missing

You can vote for jEdit as the editor of the year at LinuxQuestions.

jEdit 4.2pre6 is now available. While this is mostly a bug fix release, it has a few nice new features too, like C+b that completes from all visible buffers, and auto-detection of a buffer's encoding if an XML encoding processing instruction is present. A full changelog is available.

According to this article jEdit is included in Sun's Java Desktop System (or at least in the demo version). Which is actually a reworked and rebadged SuSE Linux distribution.

jEdit 4.2pre5 is now available. This release adds text drag and drop, and fixes a large number of bugs. See the change log for a full list.

jEdit 4.2 development is going well and there will be a feature freeze soon so that I can focus on making 4.2final more stable than 4.1 ever was. Does anyone have suggestions for features they'd like to see in the editor core before 4.2final?

jEdit has been nominated in the JDJ 2003 Editors' Choice Awards; as announced in the June 2003 issue of Java Developer's Journal magazine.

The Editor-in-Chief of JDJ, Alan Williamson, nominated jEdit, saying: "The plugin architecture alone wins my vote, even beating Eclipse's. To say this is just a text editor for code is definitely underselling this wonderful example of software engineering."

Well done Slava and the rest of the jEdit team!

(jEdit is no stranger to accolades, last y

I am new to JEdit and really like it! The one thing I wanted to change right away was that there is support for function highlighting but not for highlighting common Java classes, which I am used to.

EditPlus has 1800 such keywords in a plain text file so it was pretty easy to import them into jEdit's java.xml file.

I wrote up a quick explanation and posted the relevant files here:
"http://www.praximos.com/jedit"

Thanks to everyone who works on jEdit, this is an awesome program!