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 John Davis' multiplatform editor

 Author:   John Davis
 Homepage: http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/
 Family:   WordStarFamily, BriefFamily, MsDosEditors FoldingEditors ScriptedEditorFamily
 Platform: Linux, MSDOS, Windows, Windows/Cygwin?
 License:  Open source

John is also the author of Slang http://www.s-lang.org)

Color syntax highlighting on color terminals, e.g., Linux console or a remote color terminal via dialup (as well as Xjed).
Folding support
Drop-down menus on _ALL_ terminals/platforms.
Emulation of Emacs, EDT, Wordstar, Borland, and Brief editors.
Extensible in the C-like S-Lang language making the editor completely customizable.
Capable of reading GNU info files from within JED's info browser
A variety of programming modes (with syntax highlighting) are available including C, C++, FORTRAN, TeX, HTML, SH, python, IDL, DCL, NROFF...
Edit TeX files with AUC-TeX style editing (BiBTeX? support too).
Asynchronous subprocess support allowing one to compile from within the editor
Built-in support for the GPM mouse driver on Linux console.
Abbreviation mode and Dynamic abbreviation mode.
8 bit clean with mute/dead key support.
Supported on most Unix, VMS, OS/2, MSDOS (386+), win9X/NT, QNX, and BeOS? systems.
Rectangular cut/paste; regular expressions; incremental searches; search replace across multiple files; multiple windows; multiple buffers; shell modes; directory editor (dired); mail; rmail; ispell; and much, much more.

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