jEditor overview

jEditor is a native text, code and markup editor for Mac. It’s a powerful and versatile code editor designed to make your programming experience smoother, faster, and more enjoyable. With essential features like syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, code completion, bracket balancing, and more, it has everything you need to code efficiently.

Features

Built Specifically for Mac: jEditor leverages the power and performance of Swift to deliver a seamless, responsive experience. Designed to take full advantage of macOS features, it integrates perfectly with the system, ensuring smooth performance and reliability. jEditor feels right at home on your Mac, with optimized features like quick startup, fluid interface, and native support for Mac gestures. Enjoy a fully optimized coding experience that’s fast, intuitive, and designed exclusively for Mac users.
Syntax Highlighting: Supports 60+ languages including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Markdown, C, CPP, C#, Swift, Java, XML, JSON, SQL, Python, Fortran, Go, Ruby, Perl, Rust, Shell Scripts and more. Enjoy visually appealing code with easy-to-read syntax highlighting.
Smart Code Completion: Write code faster with ranked code completions. It automatically recognizes variables, types, functions, and more across multiple languages, offering suggestions to accelerate your coding. With intelligent auto-suggestions, you’ll reduce errors and boost productivity, ideal for both beginners and experts.
Built-in Git Integration: Seamlessly integrate version control into your workflow with the built-in Git support in jEditor. Effortlessly manage your repositories, commit changes, and track revisions—all from within the app. With an intuitive interface, you can quickly stage, commit, push, and pull updates, making collaboration with teams smoother and more efficient. View diffs, resolve conflicts, and keep your projects organized without ever leaving the app. Whether you’re working solo or in a team, our Git integration simplifies version control, so you can focus on writing great code.
Customizable and User-Friendly Interface: jEditor offers a highly customizable interface, letting you tailor your workspace to fit your preferences. From themes and color schemes to keyboard shortcuts and layout configurations, you can design an environment that works best for you. Choose from a variety of themes, adjust fonts, colors, and layouts, and create a workspace that feels just right for your style.
Multi-Tab Support: Work on multiple projects at once with full multi-tab functionality. Switch between files effortlessly and keep your workflow organized.
Split Editor: Use split editor to view and edit multiple files side by side in the same window. This feature lets you compare code, reference documentation, or work on different parts of your project simultaneously, eliminating the need to switch between tabs.
File Management: Organize your code with an intuitive file navigator. Easily create, delete, or manage directories and files within your project. With our intuitive drag-and-drop functionality, you can open your files directly by simply dragging them into the editor window.
Find and Replace: Effortlessly search and modify your code with the powerful find and replace feature. Quickly locate specific lines, variables, or functions within your project, and replace them with just a few clicks. With support for regular expressions, you can perform advanced searches, making it easier to refactor your code or fix multiple instances at once.

What’s new in version 5.2

Preview

Preview your documents directly within the app using the built-in browser, designed to supercharge your development workflow.
Option to use built-in server ideal for static content or a custom local/remote server to preview your documents.
Automatic refresh on save of associated documents, ensures instant updates with every change.
Quickly toggle between light and dark modes to test your content across different appearances.
View real-time browser dimensions while resizing, perfect for responsive design testing.
Hover on links to preview their destination with tooltips.
Print or save to PDF directly from the built-in browser.
Preview Markdown documents rendered as HTML with enhanced styling.

Split Editor

Redesigned split editor to make it easy to navigate, view and edit multiple documents or sections side by side.
Focus on a single split editor to hide others for distraction-free editing.
Switch between vertical and horizontal orientations to match your workflow.
Effortlessly open and close split editors as needed.

Tab Bar

Jumping to symbols in a file is now part of the navigation history, making it easy to move back and forth between different sections of the document.
Fixed an issue where document tabs occasionally didn't close when the document was closed.

Document

Fixed an issue where reopening a project with a locally unavailable iCloud document caused the app to crash.
Fixed an issue where restoring initial selection did not work occasionally.
All new views of a document now use the current selection and scroll position as the initial state.

Editor

Improved automatic quote substitution to keep the selection centered when replacing quotes.
Instance highlighter is now limited to document types that support syntax for instances.
Improved adaptive color mapping for dark mode in rich text documents, with better syncing across multiple editors.
Fixed an issue where changes to the rich text document background weren't reflected in all split editors.
Fixed an issue where highlighting the current line caused the app to crash during editor resizing.

Suggestions

Improvements in code completion suggestions.
Fixed an issue where suggesting words with accent marks could cause the app to crash.
Fixed a crash caused by automatic closing of suggestions.

Syntax Highlighter

Added support for highlighting CSS custom properties syntax.

File Navigator

Added drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste support to enable adding, copying, moving, and deleting files.
Drag files from external applications to copy them into the target location.
Reorganize files by dragging them to new locations.
Open files in external applications by dragging them out of the file navigator.
Delete files by dragging them to the Trash app.

Inspectors

Added an Outline inspector to list all symbols in a document.
History inspector now shows details of selected commit.
Enhanced automatic inspector selection based on primary document types.

Main Menu

Added a new “Focus“ submenu for easier focus switching between split editors, sidebar, and inspector.
Added “Open With” menu to allow opening documents with other apps.
Added “Preview in Split Editor” command.
Added “Previous Tab” and “Next Tab” options for navigating between documents.
Added “Reload” and “Reload from Origin” options to refresh current browser page.

Launcher

Implemented drag-and-drop support for adding projects.
Added default server option in project settings.
Improved handling of stale project directories.

Settings

Reorganized Editor settings by separating options into “Display” and “Editing” tabs.
Added a new “Behavior” tab to manage spelling and substitution settings, allowing customization for “Rich Text”, “Markup” and “Code” document types individually.

Application

Improved the behavior of window restoration during application launch.
Other bug fixes and improvements.

5.0

(2 Reviews of jEditor)

Comments
User Ratings

mugsuk

Jan 20 2025

Version: 5.0

I retract my previous statement, and apologise to the developer; I left a message on the app website and I was almost immediately sent a trial code to test the app. I have used almost every text editor ever made to find one that feels like it was made purely for a Mac but that has every function I could need for text editing - this is it. The app is written in Swift and thus is granted huge amounts of functionality by macOS itself - I was able to extend its functionality almost limitlessly using AppleScript, Shell scripts, and the Services menu. This is probably my favourite app to use on my laptop now. Thanks again to the developer.

Dec 18 2024

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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