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copied!<p>I've been using jEdit for a few years now, mainly on windows, but also on Ubuntu. I use it for: SQL, awk, batch files, html, xml, javascript... Just about everything except .NET stuff (for which I use Visual Studio).<br> I love it. </p> <h2>summary</h2> <p>I use jEdit because it has the right balance for me of <strong>ease of setting up</strong> vs. <strong>features</strong> and <strong>customisability</strong>. For me, no other editor strikes quite as good a balance. </p> <h2>cons</h2> <ul> <li> It can be a bit hard to make it do the things you want. </li> </ul> <h2>pros</h2> <ul> <li> I love the <a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/list.php" rel="noreferrer"> plugins </a> </li> <li> Being able to define my own syntax highlighting etc. is just what I want from a text editor. </li> <li> The <a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jedit/jedit4.3pre15manual-a4.pdf" rel="noreferrer">manual</a> is very good and quite readable. I strongly suggest reading it through to get an idea of what jEdit can do for you. (In fact, I suggest this for any software you use) <li> It's cross-platform. I used it just on windows for a long time, but now I also use Ubuntu, and it works there: I can even copy the configuration files over from my windows machine, and everything works. Nice. </ul> <h2>other editors</h2> <p>In the past I did take a look at <strong>Notepad++</strong>, but that was a while ago, and it didn't have a nice way to define your own syntax highlighting, which is important for me. I also paid for <strong>Textmate</strong> and <strong>UltraEdit</strong> at different times (both very good), but in the end, jEdit comes out on top for me.<br> I also used <strong>Eclipse</strong> for a year or so. It's fantastic, and it'll do anything you want, <em>but</em> you have to be really into Eclipse to get the most out of it. </p>

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