This is probably as good a place as any to post this question. I have been a long-time jEdit user, but since moving to a Mac I've been frustrated with its lack of "Cocoa-ness." Progress has been made with the interface *looking* more Mac-centric, but the software itself doesn't play especially well with OSX.

So when I stumbled on "Jedit X," I was excited at first, thinking I'd finally found a Cocoa version of jEdit. This doesn't seem to be entirely true. While the first paragraph describing Jedit X says it is "the result of re-building the software entirely from scratch in Cocoa to best take advantage OS X's capabilities," a line further down says "Our Jedit is a native Macintosh application and is totally unrelated to the Java editor 'jEdit.'" Not quite sure how both can be true. The two programs certainly have similarities, but a lot of differences, too. Boiling it down to the biggest advantages & disadvantages from my view, it has a lot of the same powerful text-editing functions and search capability but with better OSX integration, but doesn't have the Plugin Manager or even compatibility with manual jEdit plugin installation (unless I'm missing something). Of course another advantage/disadvantage, depending on how you look at it, is the fact that Jedit X is a commercial product.

I'm still hoping there will one day be a Cocoa version of jEdit itself that stays current, or close to current with the Java version. Is that even remotely possible? What is the jEdit community's opinion of "Jedit X"? Is it viewed as a rip-off or a legitimate commercial offshoot of jEdit?

Thanks,

Todd