Just like every project, there are always few problems that are annoying. Like they don’t seem to make their site priority. They don’t change their darn release name (they had pre-X for the past 3 years or so!) Their default has this annoying dot at end of line. things like that are just sad to see they are not willing to change much.

But in general, i found it very usable and pretty of plugins that simply works and quick to install.

Yeah, the icons are almost exactly from the tango project. IIRC, some of them are custom, but most are just stock that were integrated into the core.

WRT TextMate: I have tried TextMate, though I can’t claim that I ever used it extensively (I spent about a week using it as my primary editor). It’s not bad, but the out of hte box experience is a bit annoying. It took some tweaking before it got to the point where it was visually usable. Granted, TextMate requires a lot less work than even pre14 of jEdit, but it’s far from perfect.

lol That’ll teach me to proof my links before I publish… Thanks for catching it!

Obviously, you haven’t used TextMate lately. I have yet to find a single application on the Mac platform as useful and as snappy. Give it a try! (Disclaimer: I do not work for MacroMates but have used TM every day for two years now, typing C++, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, HTML, Erlang, CMake, even publishing on my blog with it, updating Subversion repositories or creating LaTeX files with it!)

OTOH, my experience with previous versions of jEdit was, to put it simply, “no thanks”. I didn’t like it, at all. Personal opinion, of course, but I will give a try to the latest version nonetheless, now that you mention it. The icons of the toolbar look very similar to those from the Tango icon project http://tango.freedesktop.org/