

jEdit manages this difficult task by presenting an environment that is both familiar but incredibly customizable, and providing useful hints along the way. So the deciding factor, for me, is how integrated an editor is: How well it melds all these disparate features into one whole that is both powerful and simple to use (text editing should be simple, after all).

If I have the following file: foo foo foo foo foo foo and do a Hypersearch for 'foo' it appears to find 3 occurences within the file, in reality it seems to find 3 lines in the file that have the string 'foo' on them rather than 3 occurences of the string 'foo' Here's a screen shot of. Since advanced editors need to please so many diverse users, they all tend to be crammed full of features. I've always wondered if the way Hypersearch shows it's results seems broken to anyone else. You can also customize shortcuts and add new ones: The powerful Options dialog includes a search box that lets you instantly find the command you wish to bind.Ī text editor cannot be summed up as a laundry list of features. Shortcuts are shown right next to menu items, so it’s easy to learn the one for your favorite operations. Keyboard shortcuts are an important part of every text editor, and here, too, jEdit doesn’t disappoint. Class that implements regular expression and literal search within jEdit buffers.

Another fairly unique jEdit feature is HyperSearch, which brings up a pane with a list of occurrences of the search string in the current file (similar to how the Find feature works in Word 2010). The plugin manager also checks for updates, and lets you update multiple plugins en masse.
#JEDIT HYPERSEARCH INSTALL#
jEdit features a built-in plugin manager, so you can easily find and install any plugin you need without even leaving the application. While other editors also offer add-ons and plugins, you often need to find them on the Web (be it at Vim.org or on the Komodo Extensions page).
