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I started working on jEdit when I was 14 and developed it for 6 years or so. While I haven’t used it in a very long time I’m humbled to see that it is still being maintained and has users.

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I wrote a buffer switch plugin for jEdit which you reviewed and gave feedback on. Didn't know you were 14 - thought you were some expert, greybeard Java programmer lol.

Thanks for the plugin, it's awesome.

A great tool, trully a programmer's text editor. Used it for more than 10 years, it seemed like it had plugins for virtually eveything. I remember one time we had to work with huge XML files, like 100 MB in size or so, and everyone was grepping them or struggling with other editors, while jEdit had that nice XML parser plugin which showed a nice hierarchical tree :) Thanks for all the work put into it. Nowadays I tend to gravitate towards KDevelop and others but I hope jEdit continues on.

you were 14?! i always pictured you as much older back in those days when i was an avid user of it.

i found you on twitter awhile back, it brought back a lot of memories of being the only guy in the office who insisted on ecshewing IDEs in favor of something light yet capable like jedit. it was truly ahead of its time.

I look back at JEdit very fondly. The whole project was very inspiring to me, I was always impressed at the results you were able to achieve.

Just out of curiosity: what editor do you use nowadays?

> Just out of curiosity: what editor do you use nowadays?

I’m pretty fond of Sublime Text these days.

The biggest things that cause friction in SublimeText compared to jEdit are the tabbed views instead of separation between Buffers/Views.

Then there's hypersearch, which is still the most versatile search implementation in an editor IMHO. (Perhaps a ripgrep integration underneath would speed it up!)

And there are the Highlight and SFTP plugins which are amazing and surprisingly hard to find (not that there aren't any, just not with the same specific nuances).

I could wax poetic all day. Thanks for jEdit.

Just want to say the Factor is my favorite language for doing programming puzzles and challenges.

Same here. And jEdit is the only text editor I've ever seen with built in support for Factor syntax highlighting.

Thank you for jEdit. It is my favorite editor that I have used next to vim for the past 13 years.

It does SO many things right, that I can't find a single editor that can do the same things well. Combined with some of the plugins, that I haven't found good replacements for, it is one of my favorite pieces of software ever.

Thank you.

Thank you, I got my start in webdev using this editor. Used to update prod code with the SFTP plugin :)

It had the feel of PFE for me which I loved when I was on Windows. You did great work.

Just throwing a wild idea out there, if you ever decide to write a non-jvm based port of jEdit, possibly with support for the older plug-ins, I think it would become the best editor.

This reminds me of BlueJ. Does anyone remember BlueJ with its auto generated class diagrams?

I remember it quite fondly and even remember its predecessor Blue.

Kudos, Slava!! About 15 years ago, what really surprised me was the speed at which jEdit used to start up and react, compared to many other JVM-based applications. I found it to be a great, simple editor - I am an avid Emacs user for the most part.

Thanks for all the work. I used it for many years as my primary software development editor.

I use it for ages (besides emacs). Properly configured it can stick with emacs at ease. The console plugin, however, might benefit from a brush up, e.g. FX, so it could display MathJax/KaTeX or PNG ...

I used it a lot when I was studying computer science 18 years ago. Thanks!

I still use it. Best directory regex search and replace ever.

So is factor probably.

Will be interesting if you pick up a new hobby project once you retire from day job.

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