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About jEdit

JEdit is a cross-platform, programmer's text editor written in Java. Some of jEdit's features include it runs on MacOS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS, and Windows. JEdit is an enormously popular text editor designed for programmers. JEdit's strengths lie in it's simplicity, power and wide support of Unicode, Text Encoding Sniffer, Customizable Syntax Coloring, Fully Customizable Key Bindings, Object Embedding (image, Quicktime Movie and files) and much more. Under most circumstances, jEdit plugins do not need to be downloaded and installed manually. Usually, you can add, update, and remove plugins from a working installation of jEdit by using the bundled Plugin Manager. It can be accessed from jEdit's Plugins-Plugin Manager menu. If you would like to find out how to install plugins manually. Make sure you quit/relaunch jEdit before you do this or the settings directory may not be correct. Install Plugins. To gain the full power of jedit you need to install various plugins (xinsert, console, editor scheme, xsearch and errorlist). In the 'jeditsetup' folder you'll find a folder called 'jars'. With the JythonInterpreter plugin, jEdit can also process scripts written in Python. These macros can also be used to make jEdit more productive for you. Patches (3) Patches and compiled executables that fix bugs or add features to jEdit or its plugins Plugin beta versions (51) All plugins should be released to Plugin Central.

jEdit 5.6.0 is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. To download, install, and set up jEdit as quickly and painlessly as possible, go to the Quick Start page. While jEdit 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. This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system/platform without restrictions. jEdit is available to all software users as a free download for Windows.

We tested the file jedit5.6.0install.exe with 25 antivirus programs and it turned out 100% clean. It's good practice to test any downloads from the Internet with trustworthy antivirus software.

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Older versions of Windows often have trouble running modern software and thus jEdit may run into errors if you're running something like Windows XP. Conversely, much older software that hasn't been updated in years may run into errors while running on newer operating systems like Windows 10. You can always try running older programs in compatibility mode.

Officially supported operating systems include Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.

The current version of jEdit is 5.6.0 and is the latest version since we last checked. This is the full offline installer setup file for PC. This site has hosted other versions of it in the past such as 5.5.0, 5.4.0, 5.3.0, 5.2.0 and 5.1.0. At the moment, only the latest version is available.

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