[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-11-22, hb <end.of at inter.net> wrote:
> On 11/22/2016 07:32 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
>> Thanks.  I've deliberately avoided JED on my Mac because of its Java
>> dependency (Keep It Simple philosophy - don't install it where it's not
>> needed), but nowadays I have adequate *nix instances where that's not a
>> problem.
>
> JED is an editor written by John E. Davis. It is written in C:
> there is no Java in JED.

Oops. I mixed it up with jedit, which _is_ Java based, and claims to run
on VMS:

<http://jedit.org/>

Features:

* Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows.
* Built-in macro language; extensible plugin architecture. Hundreds of
  macros and plugins available.
* Plugins can be downloaded and installed from within jEdit using the
  "plugin manager" feature.
* Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 200 languages.
* Supports a large number of character encodings including UTF8 and
  Unicode.
* Folding for selectively hiding regions of text.
* Word wrap.

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