[plug] Religious debate - editor wars

[Ben New]

I agree wholeheartedly. I use jedit for editing everything - C(++), 
Java, (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, shell scripts, XML, SQL, Perl.......

The syntax highlighting supports all of the above just from the standard 
download. (One caveat - CSS2 selectors/declarations like 
"position:absolute;" are not highlighted out-of-the-box, I'm assuming it 
only has CSS1 implemented by default).

And... yes you get the source code and you can get the Java SDK source 
code and it's all free. Jedit itself is released under the gnu-gpl. 
Could you want more???

One question - why the "but" before saying its written in java? That 
should be changed to "and as an added bonus... (because you can use the 
same tool in winblows and linux and macos and amiga any other platform 
which has a port of java available)..."

I've seen a couple of anti-java sentiments in here and was wondering 
where this is coming from? Let me guess, something about Suncorp being 
analagous to M$ as a corporation?

Ben

P.S. Sorry if everyone else is over this thread already... i was out 
until just recently and as you can see it is a bit of a religious thing 
for me :-)




> Apart from vim which you already know about, jedit is very capable 
> with syntax highlighting for most languages. Highly configurable and 
> easy to extend the capabilities with plugins but is written in java. 
> If I didn't use vim, then that would be my editor of choice.
>
> Tim Bowden
>