Editing JEdit (section)

===Plug-ins===
There are over 150 available jEdit [[plug-in (computing)|plug-in]]s for many different application areas.

Plug-ins are used to customize the application for individual use and can make it into an advanced XML/HTML editor, or an [[integrated development environment]] (IDE), with [[compiler]], code completion, context-sensitive help, debugging, visual differentiation and language-specific tools.

The plug-ins are downloaded via an integrated plug-in manager which finds and installs them along with any dependencies. The plugin manager will track new versions and can download associated updates automatically.<ref name="jedit.org" />

Some available plug-ins include:
* Spell checker using [[Aspell]]
* Syntax and style checkers for various languages<ref name="jedit plugin" />
* Text auto-complete
* Accents plugin that converts character abbreviations for accented characters as they are typed.
* XML plugin that is used for editing XML, HTML, ECMAScript and CSS files. In the case of XML, the plug-in does validation. For XML, HTML and CSS, it uses auto-completion popups for elements, attributes and entities.<ref name="jedit plugins" />