JED Free and open source CLI based text editor
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Free and open source CLI based text editor JED is a freely available text editor for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and WIN9X/NT platforms. Although JED is a powerful editor designed for use by programmers, its drop-down menu facility make it one of the friendliest text editors around. Hence JED is ideal for editing complex programs in a variety of computer languages as well as for composing simple email messages. Here are some key features of "JED": · Color syntax highlighting on color terminals, e.g., Linux console or a remote color terminal via dialup (as well as Xjed). · Folding support · Drop-down menus on _ALL_ terminals/platforms. · Emulation of Emacs, EDT, Wordstar, Borland, and Brief editors. · Extensible in the C-like S-Lang language making the editor completely customizable. · Capable of reading GNU info files from within JED's info browser · A variety of programming modes (with syntax highlighting) are available including C, C++, FORTRAN, TeX, HTML, SH, python, IDL, DCL, NROFF... · Edit TeX files with AUC-TeX style editing (BiBTeX support too). · Asynchronous subprocess support allowing one to compile from within the editor · Built-in support for the GPM mouse driver on Linux console. · Abbreviation mode and Dynamic abbreviation mode. · 8 bit clean with mute/dead key support. · Supported on most Unix, VMS, OS/2, MSDOS (386+), win9X/NT, QNX, and BeOS systems. · Rectangular cut/paste; regular expressions; incremental searches; search replace across multiple files; multiple windows; multiple buffers; shell modes; directory editor (dired); mail; rmail; ispell; and much, much more. Requirements: · S-Lang

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