jEdit's a text editor for programmers, available under the GNU General Public License version 2.0. Compatibility jEdit's written in Java and runs on Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS, and Windows. Development jEdit development was started in 1998. The founding author was Slava Pestov, who left the project in 2006, handing development to the free software community. There hasn't been a major release of jEdit after version 4.2 in 2004; however, there've been numerous 4.3 preview releases since. F… (More on Jedit)