JEdit is IMHO one of the best and most flexible editors out there. It will highlight the matching brace (or tag for xml, html, etc) and even show you (in the status bar) the line of code that contains the other brace. So, if you are at the bottom of a 200 line IF statement, and you put your cursor on the }, then you can see the conditional in the status bar.

JEdit has support for just about every language under the sun, is extremely extensible, and very fast (especially considering it is in Java/Swing).

The only downside it has, is that it is so customizable and configurable, that it will take you a better part of an afternoon to get it setup just the way you want, but you CAN set it up just the way you want.

Ted Young

($$<<$$=>$$<=>$$<=$$>>$$) always returns 1. :-)

In reply to Re: Good perl wrting software by TedYoung
in thread Good perl wrting software by Anonymous Monk

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