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Add to SafariWhen comparing Lime vs jEdit, the Slant community recommends jEdit for most people. In the question“What are the best programming text editors?” jEdit is ranked 63rd while Lime is ranked 80th. The most important reason people chose jEdit is:
JEdit offers syntax highlighting for several languages.
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Pros
Pro Free and open source
Lime is open source and free to use, unlike Sublime.
Pro Almost as good as Sublime Text
Lime is very useful, powerful, and clean. It has a sleek UI (as compared to Sublime) but is generally quite similar, if not better in some respects, than Sublime Text.
Pro Syntax highlighting
JEdit offers syntax highlighting for several languages.
Pro Plugin support
JEdit has lots of plugins that help you customize the editor to your liking. The plugins are easy to download (once you select a mirror) and take effect right away, without a restart.
Pro Cross-platform
jEdit runs on Linux, OS X and Windows.
Cons
Con Doesn't have an installer
You need to build Lime from source yourself, which may be out of many people's skill level.
Con Depends on Java
Because jEdit requires Java to be installed on the OS, it's not suitable for those who don't want Java.
