Jade is a text editor primarily designed for programmers. It is easily customised through a Lisp-style extension language and can be tailored to the user's own requirements.
Jade is designed to run under a graphical windowing system, systems currently supported are the Commodore Amiga and the X Window System version 11 (but only under Unix).
It is the successor to the editor Jed 2.10 which I released for the
Amiga in early 1993. I have decided to rename it now that I have made an
X11 version since there is already an editor called Jed available
(there is no connection between the two, I haven't even looked at the other
one). "Jade" is an anagram of "A Jed", if you want an acronym you could
use "Just Another Damn Editor", if you can think of anything better please
tell me.
Jade is compatible with GNU Emacs in terms of key presses and command names to a certain extent but it is not intended as a simple copy of Emacs (indeed, when I started this I had never actually used Emacs!). I have tried to take my favourite aspects of all the editors I have used as well as adding features that I have not found elsewhere. Consequently, it is very much the editor that I want -- you may not find it so appealing.
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