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After some frustration with other text editors, I recently discovered jEdit. It seems like a light-weight editor that has so many plugins that it could be grown to be a full IDE. I especially like how it handles SQL. I've found quite a few people that happily converted from Emacs to jEdit. But have yet to find people that converted from an IDE.
I'm not trying to argue which is the best IDE. I just want to know if people are actively using jEdit as an IDE and how it compares to other IDE's they've used. I have been trying to get jEdit to be an IDE but it appears to take quite a bit of configuration and I'm concerned it will just be a waste of time.
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Writing in December 2011, reviewer Rares Aioanei praised jEdit's versatility, stating "jEdit's design allows you to use it as a simple editor, but also use it as an IDE and expand its functionality via plugins so that it becomes exactly what you want it to be for the task or language at hand." but also adding that " ...
jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java, originally developed by Slava Pestov, now maintained by others. It has an easy to use interface that resembles that of many other Windows and MacOS text editors.
JEdit is a great open source application, one of my long-time favorites. It may also be the single best Java-based application I've seen, in the way it balances capability and performance (JEdit is not the resource or memory hog that some Java programs have been in the past).
Based on this I think you can: Using jedit as an IDE
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