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Wednesday, December 22, 2004

jEdit's diff plugin is great

jEdit's JDiffPlugin is superb. I'm still happily using jEdit as my main editor. There are some rough spots, but overall I'm happy. And now I'm doubly happy to have a diff program in my editor.

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BufferTabs, SideKick + XML, Navigator, and Project Viewer plugins are my can't-live-withouts... plus the File System Browser. (currently editing mostly JavaScript + XUL / XHTML).

I still can't figure out why people would still be willing to pay for a "lightweight" text editor (BBEdit, TextMate, I'm looking at you...) when jEdit+plugins is available, free, for any Java-supported platform. Now buying something like IntelliJ IDEA I can accept, though Eclipse is getting better and better...

I wish more languages were supported as SideKick plugins (currently just XML). I've looked at what's required to get a plugin that will, say, provide a list of autocompletion results for a new language, and it's pretty daunting -- you basically need, at a minimum, to embed a complete parser for the language.

∴ Ben Karel | 28-Dec-2004 12:28am est | http://eschew.org/ | #6705

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