# jEdit Reviews **Vendor:** jEdit **Category:** [Text Editor Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/text-editor) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About jEdit jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. ## jEdit Reviews ### 1. organized text editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2023 **What do you like best about jEdit?** I get to be able to organize my codes. Different types of codes have their own indicators. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** Nothing. It's easy to use and very straight forward. **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease of use and the straight forward method of using it. ### 2. Best and Compatiable tool for Every Language JEdit **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishnu S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2020 **What do you like best about jEdit?** JEdit is the best tools and the best part of this tool is that we can use whatever language we want use and its compatible to all operating system and the memory taken by this tool is too minimal and I m really habitual for this tool. By using the extension of this we can even the program as well as. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** There is nothing which is dislike in this. **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Easy to use 2. Too much memory uses. 3. Compatible to all operating system. 4. Can perform the output for any language and have suggestion for methods for all language. ### 3. jEdit is an editor compatible with various programming languages and has good plugins **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Victor A. | Arquitecto de software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2019 **What do you like best about jEdit?** jEdit is a fast and lightweight editor. The most important feature is that it comes with a wide variety of syntax add-ons such as automatic completion and others as automatic saving. Another feature that fascinates me about this application is its directory, which allows me to easily find files. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** I can be a bit complicated to configure the appearance of the software. I also don't like some things, for example, jEdit does not receive updates very frequently and when it receives them some packages are no longer available. **Recommendations to others considering jEdit:** jEdit is a great software to handle several files at once. I think it has good complements to facilitate coding. In my opinion, it is a very stable editor and if you have not used it, at least try. I recommend it. **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use jEdit specifically to write CSS codes. It is very convenient because it has highlights with colors that I can choose myself. I have been very happy with this editor for its ease of use and the speed with which it loads the files, without consuming many resources. ### 4. jEdit is a friendly development editor with good add-ons **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jose C. | Arquitecto de Software NET, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2019 **What do you like best about jEdit?** jEdit is applicable for different programming languages and is open source, therefore, it has a wide variety of extensions. I like its self-suggestion functions as it helps programmers to easily develop the code. I consider that the key point of this editor is that it is free and has several libraries provided by different users to take full advantage of its features. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** The access keys for entering commands can be confusing and difficult to configure. **Recommendations to others considering jEdit:** jEdit is a multilanguage tool, easy to use and with many add-ons for you to experience in your projects. I recommend it for curious people who like to develop their own environment for the development of their projects. **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** jEdit helps me to review codes of the company's SOAP client services with the APIs we are developing. There are great benefits such as highlighting the colors of the code, which gives me better visibility and that I don't miss any variables. It also allows me to install third-party user extensions to customize the application. ### 5. A free, open source editor with many plugins **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cristian P. | Arquitecto de software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2019 **What do you like best about jEdit?** jEdit has a great advantage that are its complements as its Android plugin to create and execute projects of this platform. Its interface is also great, because it is simplistic and you only have what you need for editing. The best thing is that you can integrate with Git to have version control. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** jEdit is free, open source, has a large library of plugins and is also available for all platforms such as Windows, Unix, Linux, MacOS and VMS, so I do not dislike anything about this application, I think what it offers It is more than enough. **Recommendations to others considering jEdit:** This software has numerous functions and plugins that will facilitate the development of your work. In my opinion, it's great to program in jEditor. I suggest you give it a try and download this editor. **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** jEdit allows me to work faster because it is a light program and has good keyboard shortcuts for easy coding. I can program with its CssEditor plugin to edit CCS elements within this editor that also allows validation. It also allows me to use SQL clients with its DBTerminal plugin. ### 6. Hardware lead **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nabil C. | Hardware Lead Engineer - DeepPCB, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2020 **What do you like best about jEdit?** Work on Linux, like Windows editors, not complicated like Vim or others. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** The use is very RAM intensive. It becomes very slow when I open many windows or documents. :( **Recommendations to others considering jEdit:** Easy to use like Windows editors. Java makes it have a nice GUI. **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Unix scripting Verilog hardware design TCL tool scripting ### 7. A reliable code editor to program in different formats **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alfonso A. | Analista Programador Sr. de BI, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2019 **What do you like best about jEdit?** jEdit is a text editor with a pleasant user interface with accessible features, topics and commands. It loads quickly even with large documents. I really like that with a few keys you can quickly structure a web code. In addition, it is very easy to take notes and organize the work. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** A disadvantage that I have found in jEdit is that some add-ons do freeze the software when the save option is used. I also think it is complicated to create keyboard shortcuts. **Recommendations to others considering jEdit:** If you are a programmer who likes to try different development environments, you should definitely try jEdit. This editor has new features to code, so I recommend its immediate use. **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** jEdit is my main code editor for the development of HTML, CSS and PHP content on the website of my work in the different sections. I often use its sidebar to copy, crop and paste code, as well as its macro tools to search through directories. ### 8. jEdit makes me program comfortably **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pablo C. | Arquitecto de desarrollo de aplicaciones, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2019 **What do you like best about jEdit?** jEdit runs on most operating systems such as Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOS and others. It has excellent options as markers to remember positions. The best thing is that you can open n quantity of projects in the same window. In addition, it runs on the Java 6 platform, for lovers of this environment. I also like that there is a lot of documentation online to make the learning curve too short. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** This software has a clipboard features to copy and paste, however, so far, it has not worked for me, making the work more cumbersome. Also, it has not been possible to install jEdit on Unix, due to a missing package that does not download automatically. **Recommendations to others considering jEdit:** This editor has excellent keyboard shortcuts and can be used for different programming languages, especially PHP. It is a software with a great documentation support and is multiplatform. In addition, it is very stable and will surely be of great help. I recommend its implementation. **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** jEdit makes me work comfortably when I am programming thanks to its quick access keys, which are also manipulable, increasing my productivity. I also benefit from the large number of add-ons that are available and that allow me to exploit all the features of the software. ### 9. Slick easy to use GUI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about jEdit?** A text editor on steroids, runs great with JAVA and comes in a small package. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** Sometimes the plugin manager can be a little buggy, although this might be an issue with the plugin developers more so than the software. **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping code some basic fixes in our WP based agency website. ### 10. Nice editor for hardcore java developers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2018 **What do you like best about jEdit?** It is versatile, powerful and light - weight. I like that it is a powerful text editor and yet doesn't slow my system. I like that it combines the efficiency of other editors on a single platform like unlimited redos/undos etc. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** The UI can be improved a bit keeping in mind the new text editors which are coming in the market. **Recommendations to others considering jEdit:** Try to explore all the options and features that jEdit provide while you are using it. **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I did regular Java programming for the project using jEdit and it quite powerful and flexible editor. I like the auto indent feature and multiple redos feature a lot. ### 11. Better than others **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about jEdit?** I have used this and notepad++. I prefer this one. I use this on my mac and the user face is very user-friendly. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** Nothing so far. I have just switched to using this program. **Recommendations to others considering jEdit:** Easy to use. **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** How to edit HTML documents. It's making it easier to see other people's errors. ### 12. Flexible, extensible editor, my favorite **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about jEdit?** I love the highlighted tags and the ability to add plugins to suit my needs. And because it's written in Java, I can run it on every type of computer I have. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** I have been unable to find a plugin to do tag autocompletion. Maybe it's out there, but I can't find it. **Recommendations to others considering jEdit:** It's a great editor! **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm a website developer and have to constantly edit files, so this meets my needs for everyday work. ### 13. Great for writing Python for Beginners **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about jEdit?** I love that it automatically highlights the different fragments of code. It makes it very clear to see where you are making errors in your scripts. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** Not very much, it is a savior for scripting for beginners with the different highlighting functions. **Recommendations to others considering jEdit:** Very good for beginner scripting. **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Python code for Dynamo scripting in Revit ### 14. It works well, does what it's supposed to. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2018 **What do you like best about jEdit?** I like how clean-cut it is to change and edit things as needed. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** The user experience design isn't my favorite thing ever. **Recommendations to others considering jEdit:** Give it a go. **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** My coworkers use it more than I do, but it is better for the senior programmer than some of the alternatives. ## jEdit Discussions - [What is jEdit used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-jedit-used-for) - [why dont make it faster and less ram hungry?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/26488-why-dont-make-it-faster-and-less-ram-hungry) - 1 upvote - [View jEdit pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/jedit/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+11%3A08%3A13+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=2174389e-fab7-47bf-8519-9e8614a521af&secure%5Btoken%5D=7b927ff915a864ff9e1434a6cb491bd29a76ca10609a05a0ced5c2350c5aa97b&format=llm_user) ## jEdit Features **Coding** - Syntax highlighting - Autocompletion - Find and replace - Code folding **Editing** - Collaborative editing - Language Support - Selection Methods **Functionality** - Extensibility - Cross-platform support - Plugins and integrations - Security **Agentic AI - Landing Page Builders** - Cross-system Integration ## Top jEdit Alternatives - [Notepad++](https://www.g2.com/products/notepad/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (2,397 reviews) - [Visual Studio Code](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio-code/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,548 reviews) - [Sublime Text](https://www.g2.com/products/sublime-text/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,746 reviews)