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jEditor for Mac

Fast and powerful code editor.

$9.99
In English
Version 5.0

jEditor overview

jEditor is a light weight native code editor for Mac that supports syntax coloring with amazing performance for 60+ languages.

Features
  • Open files in tabs and sidebar.
  • Manage themes for syntax highlighting.
  • Line numbers.
  • Drag & Drop to open files.
  • File encoding and line endings.
  • Autosave.
  • Set line height and tab width.
  • Trim whitespaces, show/hide invisibles.
  • Use split editor to view and edit multiple documents simultaneously.
  • Find and replace text in files.
  • Search text using regular expression or textually.
  • Automatic indentation of text.
  • Indent with tabs or spaces.
  • Balances brackets and quotes.
  • Wrap lines with indentation.
  • Print files or export as PDF.

What’s new in version 5.0

Git
  • Added built-in support for Git to coordinate code changes. Setup your jEditor project to use Git by creating a new source control repository or by downloading an existing repository.
  • jEditor uses your name and email address specified under “Source Control” settings as an author when committing changes.
  • jEditor supports automatic Git status refresh to track file changes and Git operations made by other applications.
  • jEditor provides easy to use mechanism to perform operations such as create and delete stashes, branches, tags and remotes.
  • Stage, unstage, discard individual changes in a file or collectively in selected files.
  • Commit or amend changes. Compare files and individual changes before committing.
  • Merge branches into current branch and easily resolve merge conflicts.
  • Checkout branches, tags, and remotes using source control navigator.
  • Supports push, fetch, pull operations with remotes to share changes among developers.
  • Supports HTTP, HTTPS and SSH protocols.
  • Shows difference ribbon in line numbers view to indicate modified lines in current file compared with last committed changes.
  • Click on difference ribbon to perform actions such as show, hide, stage, unstage or discard changes.
Projects
  • Use “Launcher” to see all projects that are opened with jEditor.
  • Open, create, delete and edit projects from “Launcher”.
  • The text selection and scroll position for all open files, window frame and visibility of toolbar, tab bar, path bar, status bar, navigators, and inspectors is automatically remembered for all projects.
Editor
  • Implemented editor over scroll feature.
  • Improved undo and redo behavior.
  • The URLs available in editor are only activated when hovered and command key is pressed & hold.
Suggestions
  • Redesigned suggestions view, improved layout and vertical alignment.
  • Improved scrolling behavior when using arrow keys.
  • Improved auto-cancelling, showing and hiding suggestions behavior.
Document
  • Read only support for image and PDF files.
  • Read & write support for binary property list file format.
  • Improved inferring of document type. Most of the unknown plain text files should now be considered as plain text instead of binary document.
Main Menu & Window
  • Added “Source Control” menu to perform Git operations.
  • Rearranged main menu and added various other menus and items.
  • Press and hold “option” key to open image instead of inserting it in a rich text document with drag & drop.
  • Fixed: adding new split editor does not position correctly.
  • Status bar now shows characters, words and lines count.
Navigators
  • Added “Source Control” navigator to show all changed files under “Changes” and all open repositories under ”Repositories”.
  • File navigator shows Git status for changed files.
  • Press “Delete” key when file navigator is focused to move selected files to Trash or use Edit -> Delete menu item.
  • Redesigned file search navigator to better highlight matches.
  • Improved text or regular expression finder feature.
Inspectors
  • Added history inspector to show Git commit history.
  • Added file inspector to control text encoding, line endings, indents and syntax style.
  • Added document style inspector to control font, text alignment, text color, background color and line spacing.
Settings
  • Added “Source Control” settings view with options to enable source control and editor shows source control changes.
  • Added “Accounts” settings view to list, add, and delete Git accounts.
  • Built-in support for Github, Github Enterprise, Gitlab, Gitlab self-hosted, Bitbucket Cloud and Bitbucket Server (Data Center), Gitea and Gitea self-hosted accounts.
  • Option to add accounts for other unsupported Git platforms.
  • Option to choose launch view type.
  • Option to choose app “Apperance” from system, light, and dark.
  • Option to show and hide line numbers separator.
Release Notes
  • To see complete list of changes, please visit: https://sientosh.com/jeditor/releases

jEditor for Mac

$9.99
In English
Version 5.0
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mugsuk
mugsuk
Dec 18 2024
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Dec 18 2024
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Version: 5.0
version 5.0 but I can't find anything prior to this on the web🤔. Also no trial version - something fishy going on here.
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