#JED, Utilities, The JED Text EditorOJED is a freely available text editor written by John E. Davis. It is available#from "http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/".NThis is a binary kit for OpenVMS/VAX (V7.1) -/Alpha (V7.3-2) and -/I64 (FT8.2)Kbased on JED version B0.99-17 as of 19-Jul-2004. The only difference is theMpackaging, an enhancement to access files via DECnet, changes to the DCL modeK(now with syntax highlighting) and a BLISS mode (just syntax highlighting).GPlease note, B0.99-17 is a pre-release. Check the JED home page for theNupcoming official release (which should have the above enhancements included).LThe package is the original distribution but without the sources. Additional0files are placed in the SITE sub directory tree.HTo use JED, after unpacking the kit, invoke the [.SITE]SETUP.COM commandCprocedure to define a JED_ROOT logical and the foreign command JED.=Features of the JED Editor (extracted from the JED home page)O* 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.G* Extensible in the C-like S-Lang language making the editor completely customizable.B* Capable of reading GNU info files from within JED's info browserI* A variety of programming modes (with syntax highlighting) are availableF including C, C++, FORTRAN, TeX, HTML, SH, python, IDL, DCL, NROFF...A* Edit TeX files with AUC-TeX style editing (BiBTeX support too).P* Asynchronous subprocess support allowing one to compile from within the editor=* Built-in support for the GPM mouse driver on Linux console.2* Abbreviation mode and Dynamic abbreviation mode.)* 8 bit clean with mute/dead key support.J* Supported on most Unix, VMS, OS/2, MSDOS (386+), win9X/NT, QNX, and BeOS systems.J* Rectangular cut/paste; regular expressions; incremental searches; searchJ replace across multiple files; multiple windows; multiple buffers; shellM modes; directory editor (dired); mail; rmail; ispell; and much, much more. JED and file access via DECnet- from the command line:, $ jed "node""username password""::filename"N The outer double quotes are required to let DCL pass one argument instead ofP two, separated by ' ', the inner doubled double quotes are DCL conventions for2 having a single double quote in a quoted string.%- with the open or find file command:- Find file: node"username password"::filenameLPlease be aware, JED is doing C style I/O over the net. For large files this%is not as efficient as a DECnet copy.