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jed

User-friendly text editor with drop-down menu facility

Development linuxmacos C GPL-2.0

Description

jed is a text editor with a drop-down menu facility that makes it especially user-friendly. It provides syntax highlighting, an extensible scripting language (S-Lang), and emulation modes for Emacs, WordStar, and other editors.

AI Summary

Text editor with intuitive drop-down menus and S-Lang scripting

Capabilities

  • + Edit text with an intuitive menu-driven interface
  • + Provide syntax highlighting for many languages
  • + Emulate Emacs, WordStar, and other editor keybindings

Use When

  • You want a terminal text editor with menus for discoverability
  • You prefer a more GUI-like terminal editor experience

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