Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, jEdit is an open-source programming IDE with syntax highlighting, indentation and support for a lot of programming languages.
Main features of jEdit:
- Combines the best functionality of Unix, Windows and MacOS text editors.
- Runs on any operating system with a Java 1.6 or higher virtualmachine – this includes MacOS X, Linux, Unix, VMS and Windows.
- Efficient keyboard shortcuts for everything, with predefined keymaps for Emacs, Intellij IDEA, and Mac OSX (5.0)
- Comprehensive online help
- Unlimited undo/redo
- Copy and paste with an unlimited number of clipboards (known as “registers”)
- Register contents are saved across editing sessions
- “Kill ring” automatically remembers previously deleted text
- Rich set of keyboard commands for manipulating entire words, lines and paragraphs at a time
- “Markers” for remembering positions in files to return to later
- Marker locations are saved across editing sessions
- Any number of editor windows may be open, each window may be split into several areas, each area can view a different file and keep track of an independent set of buffers. Alternatively, different locations in one file can be viewed in more than one area
- Multiple open windows and split windows are remembered between editing sessions
- Rectangular selection
- Multiple selection (sometimes known as “discontinuous” or “additive” selection) for manipulating several chunks of text at once
- Word wrap
The latest version available is jEdit 5.2, which has been released a while ago.
In this article I will show you how to install jEdit 5.2 on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0 and other Ubuntu derivative systems.
Because it is not available via any repository or PPA, we have to install openjdk7, download the jedit deb package and install it via command-line. I prefer gdebi over dpkg because it also handles dependencies.
$ sudo apt-get install gdebi openjdk-7-jdk
$ wget sourceforge.net/projects/jedit/files/jedit-devel/5.2pre1/jedit_5.2pre1_all.deb
$ sudo gdebi jedit_5.2pre1_all.deb
Optional, to remove jedit, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove jedit
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