Package: jed (0.99.18-8.etch.4)

editor for programmers (textmode version)

Jed is a small, fast (faster startup than bash) and powerful text editor.

Completely customizable with prepared emulation modes for Emacs, CUA (similar to KDE/Gnome/Openoffice), Borland-IDE, Brief, and EDT. Extensible in the S-Lang scripting language (with a syntax resembling C).

Editing functions: folding support; rectangular cut/paste; regular expression search/replace; incremental searches; search/replace across multiple files; multiple windows; multiple buffers; ...

Tools: directory editor (dired); info (browse GNU info files); mail; rmail; ispell; shell mode; ...

Special modes (syntax highlight, indention, compile, ...) for Basic, C, C++, DCL, FORTRAN, IDL, Java, NROFF, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostScript, Python, SH. Modes for markup languages include HTML and (La)TeX (with AUC-TeX style editing and BibTeX)

Additional tools and modes can be found in the jed-extra package.

 Homepage: http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/

Tags: Software Development: Source Editor, User Interface: Text-based Interactive, Role: Program, Scope: Application, Purpose: Editing, Works with: Text