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jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it.

What's new in 5.7.0

Thanks to Björn Kautler, Matthieu Casanova, Dale Anson, and Eric Le Lay for contributing to this release. Bug Fixes - Support arm64 Java installations in the macOS launcher (#4123 - Björn Kautler) - Do not forward the --verbose parameter in the macOS launcher to jEdit during investigating startup problems (Björn Kautler) - Show Temurin download link in macOS launcher if no compatible Java version was found instead of java.com and oracle.com where Java 8 is promoted (Björn Kautler) - Support Java installations with paths that are not following the old naming conventions regarding their version in the macOS launcher (Björn Kautler) - Bundle the new MacOS 1.5 plugin instead of the old MacOSX 1.3 plugin to become compatible with newer Java versions (Björn Kautler) - Fix NullPointerException during saving autosave settings if no previous autosave directory was set (Björn Kautler) - BeanShell snippets and macros now work consistently and not suddenly change behaviour anymore just because some BeanShell snippet defined a class. This now disables reflective access to otherwise inaccessible fields through simple syntax though, that used to work after a snippet with a class definition was loaded. (#4118 - Björn Kautler) - Fix the installation of plugins trying to use invalid file names (Björn Kautler) - VFSManager.canReadFile() was returning true only for directories (#4102 - Matthieu Casanova) - Allow user to choose filename when printing to pdf (partial fix for #4115 - Dale Anson) - Key handling in the Errors dialog uses current keymap (#4128 - Eric Le Lay) - Delete at the end of t...

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