WJED is a spectacular text editor that has been primarily designed for programmers. But, its Drop-Down menu feature makes it the friendliest text editor. Therefore, if you need an ideal method for composing simple email messages as well as editing complex programs in a variety of computer languages, you can go with WJED.

Here are some key features of “WJED”:

• 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.
• Rectangular cut/paste
• regular expressions
• incremental searches
• search replace across multiple files
• multiple windows
• multiple buffers
• shell modes; directory editor (dired)
• mail
• rmail
• ispell

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