jEdit 5.5

Free Download Jedit 5.5 for Windows PC it 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.

As alternative program you can also FREE download Source Insight

Overview of the jEdit 5.5

While jEdit 5.5 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 2.0.

The jEdit core, together with a large collection of plugins is maintained by a world-wide developer team. This text editor displays the changes made in Jedit X documents. You can compare any types of documents that can be read with Jedit, including plain text of various text encodings or rich text documents. You can also merge the differences instantly using its merge button or the contextual menu.

Features of text editor

• Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows.
• Built-in macro language; extensible plugin architecture. Hundreds of macros and plugins available.
• Plugins can be downloaded and installed from within text editor using the "plugin manager" feature.
• Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 200 languages.
• Supports a large number of character encodings including UTF8 and Unicode.
• Folding for selectively hiding regions of text.
• Word wrap.
• Highly configurable and customizable.
• Every other feature, both basic and advanced, you would expect to find in a text editor.
• Multiple selection (sometimes known as "discontinuous" or "additive" selection) for manipulating several chunks of text at once.

System Requirements

• Supported OS: Windows 7/8/10
• Processor: Pentium IV or above
• RAM: 1 GB RAM
• Free Hard Disk Space: 200 MB or more
• Version 5.4 requires JRE 1.8 (aka Java 8) or later