jEdit is an Open Source programmer's text editor written in Java. It is
released under the GNU General Public License. jEdit was written for Java 1.1
with Swing 1.1, and also runs under Java 2.
As far as text editors written in Java go, jEdit is one of the best. It has an
easy to use, intuitive interface, and enough features and flexibility to please
even the most hard-core programmer. A very incomplete list of jEdit's features
follows.
o Syntax highlighting for 200+ file types (including C, C++, Java, Perl, etc)
o Semi-intelligent auto indent in C, C++ and Java modes
o Bracket highlighting and matching
o Powerful macro system
o Auto-expanding abbreviations for the frequiently used strings
o Powerful search and replace - supports regular expressions and multiple file
search/replace; Search and replace operations can be recorded in macros
o Any number of strings and caret positions can be stored for later use in
so-called registers
o Rectangular selections for working with column-based files
o Any number of editor windows can be opened, and each view can be split into
multiple panes for side-by-side viewing of multiple files
o Unlimited undo/redo
Kile is an integrated LATEX environment for the KDE desktop. Kile
gives you the ability to use all the functionalities of LATEX in a
graphical interface, giving you easy, immediate, and customized
access to all programs for LATEX codecompletion, compiling,
postprocessing, debugging, conversion and viewing tools; you also
get very handy wizards, a LATEX reference and a powerful project
management.
MadEdit is an Open-Source & Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written
in C++ and wxWidgets.
MadEdit can edit files in Text/Column/Hex modes, and supports many
useful functions, e.g. SyntaxHighlightings, WordWrap, Encodings.
Mined was the first text mode editor with Unicode support. It now has both
extensive Unicode and CJK support offering many specific features and
covering special cases that other editors are not aware of (like auto-
detection features and automatic handling of terminal variations).
And basically, it is an editor tailored to efficient editing of plain text
documents and programs, with features and interactive behaviour designed
for this purpose.
Poedit is cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor. It is built
with wxWidgets toolkit and can run on any platform supported by it (although
it was tested only on Unix with GTK+ and Windows). It aims to provide more
convenient approach to editing catalogs than launching vi and editing the
file by hand.
Here is a brief features list:
- User friendly way of editing entries. You can easily navigate in large
catalogs, easily enter or modify entries (fuzzy flag is automatically
removed if you change translation, you can copy original string to
translation by pressing Alt-I)
- Whitespaces highlighting
- Fuzzy and untranslated records highlighting. Furthermore, untranslated
and fuzzy translations are displayed at the top of the list
- Automatic compilation of .mo files (optional)
- Automatic headers update
- References browser lets you see where in what context the string is used
- You can use Poedit to scan source code for translatable strings
- Integration with KDE and GNOME desktops
TeXstudio is a fully featured LaTeX editor, designed to make writing
LaTeX documents as easy and comfortable as possible. Some of the
outstanding features of TeXstudio are an integrated pdf viewer with
(almost) word-level synchronization, live inline preview, advanced
syntax-highlighting, live checking of references, citations, latex
commands, spelling and grammar.
Tetradraw is a fully featured ANSI art editor for Unix operating systems.
ANSI art is only made up of the ASCII characters with 16 colours. ANSI art is
mainly used in text mode interfaces. Tetradraw is the first completly usable
ANSI art editor for Unix operating systems. Tetradraw does not just emulate
the ANSI editors for DOS: it also allows two artists to edit the same image
simultaneously over the Internet.
In a recent fit of madness, hacker Joel Holveck has released Vigor, a version
of the popular Unix editor vi featuring the Vigor Assistant. Holveck declined
to comment on his true motives for creating the program, although it has been
confirmed that he was inspired by Pitr of User Friendly the Comic Strip.
Holveck denies rumors that he created the program as part of a plot to
encourage the use of Emacs.
Catapult is a GUI for openMSX.
AdvanceMAME and AdvanceMESS are unofficial MAME and MESS versions with an
advanced video support for helping the use with TVs, Arcade Monitors, Fixed
Frequencies Monitors and also for PC Monitors.
They run in GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, DOS, Windows and in all the other platforms
supported by the SDL library.
The main difference compared with the official emulators is that the Advance
versions are able to program directly the video board to always get a video
mode with the correct size and frequency.
Generally the Advance emulators are able to use a video mode which doesn't
require any stretching or other unneeded effects to match the original arcade
display.
The direct video board programming is fully supported in Linux and DOS. It's
partially supported in Windows. It isn't supported in Mac OS X and other
platforms.
See website for other improvements.