I've used Visual Interdev for many years. I've been using jEdit for the past week. I like jEdit better. But the one thing that I miss from V Interdev, which I find vital, is intelliscence. Intelliscence is when you type in the name of a function and the editor displays a little pop-up of the parameter list. For example, type the word "instr(" and a yellow popup displays this: "instr(start,string,string2,[compare])".