Response to Criticism

The November 18, 2002 comment stating:

"Unless you really, really want a text editor programmed in Java, stay away from this open source project. May have some potential, but the implementation is poor, documentation is mediocre, support is non existant, and getting to the jedit.org website will take more of your time than it's worth."

is completely incorrect.

The implementation is quite powerful, and the program is very popular.

The documentation on the site is good, and the help system is much improved in the new version, which is in final beta now (02-26-03).

The principal author responds to messages posted on the site very quickly.

I have never had trouble getting to the site: www.jedit.org

If you look at the Sourceforge statistics on the project, you can see that it's under very active development. The section for downloading Jedit plugins is in the top ten most popular Sourceforge download sites list.

It's worth looking at. Speed, functionality, and memory usage are all being improved. It's a wonderful tool, and it's free.