Programmers Editor

[Tom Culliton]

In article <slrn7thecj.8ok.stephan at pcrm.win.tue.nl>,
Stephan Houben <stephan at pcrm.win.tue.nl> wrote:
>On 08 Sep 1999 15:00:24 -0400, Andrew M. Kuchling <akuchlin at mems-exchange.org>
> wrote:
>>Anyway, if someone wanted to
>>contribute info on editing Python with Zeus, KDevelop, or whatever, it
>>would be very helpful.  Just follow up to this posting with notes on
>>configuring your editor of choice.
>
>JED is a very nice editor. It comes with Python support right out
>of the box. I actually didn't need anything to configure to work
>comfortably with it. (OK I chose another colour scheme in the menu.)
>
>But make sure you get the latest version (0.98).
>0.97 comes with some older Linux distributions (in my case, RH 6.0),
>but is much less nice.

The latest stable version is actually 0.98-7 available from:

	ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/jed/v0.98/

The LATEST version is B0.99-8 which despite being called a "beta"
version is at least as stable as 0.98-7 and has even nicer Python
support.  It is available from:

	ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/jed/v0.99/

>It is also much more light-weight then Emacs. But then again, there's
>no kitchen-sink built-in.

If Emacs is the editor equivalent of T-Rex, then Jed is Velacoraptor.
Smaller, quicker, more agile, and just as deadly.  I'd hate to have to
live without an emacs like editor, but living with full blown emacs is
another nightmare altogether.

I'm actually using it (GNU Emacs) to compose this message since my ISP
doesn't have a decent version of Jed installed.  When there's any load
on the machine, it burps, and farts, and garbage collects, and auto
saves, and freezes for long stretches.  Not due to code bugs, but just
because it's so bloated that it can't get enough cpu or memory.  Jed
by contrast is about 1/4 the size in memory, uses about 1/2 to 1/4 the
amount of CPU for an equivalent editting task, and in places where
Emacs is painfully sluggish, Jed is peppy and fast.

I guess you could call me a fan... ;-)