Monday, March 22, 2010

Nice java based rich text editor

Hi there,
I am sure a lot of us are fans of Editplus, Notepad++, Textpad, etc. because we all want something better than notepad; and clearly wordpad is not something better!!! The problem with the popular Editplus or Notepad++ is that they are evaluation software and we need pay to use them. Lets face it, we are not going to pay for text editing software in the near future. And here is one cute java based open source alternative that I found recently - Jedit.

Link: http://www.jedit.org/


A few plus points I found for the editor -
1. Supports Multiple Views - You can basically clone/spawn multiple windows from the main window. Works great!
2. If you need to work with large text files say over 100 Megs, just start the Jedit with a larger jvm heap size like this - C:\Users\Arun Thilak>java -Xms64M -Xmx512M -jar "C:\Program Files\jEdit 4.3.1\jedit.jar"
where Xms and Xmx are the initial and final JVM heap sizes & modify them as per your requirements.
3. Supports Regex searching and also provides multi-color syntax support for different file types.
4. Although I haven't explored it myself - there is a large amount of plugins' support for the editor

Do check it out and let me know how it works!
Happy Scripting :-)



1 comment:

Evil's Twin (JP) said...

Why should you pay to use Notepad++? :S

And why aren't MS working on notepad to make it better? :S