JED is a freely available text editor written by John E. Davis. It is available
from "http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/".

This is a binary kit for OpenVMS/VAX (V7.1) -/Alpha (V7.3-2) and -/I64 (FT8.2)
based on JED version B0.99-17 as of 19-Jul-2004. The only difference is the
packaging, an enhancement to access files via DECnet, changes to the DCL mode
(now with syntax highlighting) and a BLISS mode (just syntax highlighting).

Please note, B0.99-17 is a pre-release. Check the JED home page for the
upcoming official release (which should have the above enhancements included).

The package is the original distribution but without the sources. Additional
files are placed in the SITE sub directory tree.

To use JED, after unpacking the kit, invoke the [.SITE]SETUP.COM command
procedure to define a JED_ROOT logical and the foreign command JED.

Features of the JED Editor (extracted from the JED home page)

* Color syntax highlighting on color terminals, e.g., Linux console or a remote
  color terminal via dialup (as well as Xjed).
* Folding support
* Drop-down menus on _ALL_ terminals/platforms.
* Emulation of Emacs, EDT, Wordstar, Borland, and Brief editors.
* Extensible in the C-like S-Lang language making the editor completely
  customizable.
* Capable of reading GNU info files from within JED's info browser
* A variety of programming modes (with syntax highlighting) are available
  including C, C++, FORTRAN, TeX, HTML, SH, python, IDL, DCL, NROFF...
* Edit TeX files with AUC-TeX style editing (BiBTeX support too).
* Asynchronous subprocess support allowing one to compile from within the editor
* Built-in support for the GPM mouse driver on Linux console.
* Abbreviation mode and Dynamic abbreviation mode.
* 8 bit clean with mute/dead key support.
* Supported on most Unix, VMS, OS/2, MSDOS (386+), win9X/NT, QNX, and BeOS
  systems.
* Rectangular cut/paste; regular expressions; incremental searches; search
  replace across multiple files; multiple windows; multiple buffers; shell
  modes; directory editor (dired); mail; rmail; ispell; and much, much more. 

JED and file access via DECnet

- from the command line:
	$ jed "node""username password""::filename"
  The outer double quotes are required to let DCL pass one argument instead of
  two, separated by ' ', the inner doubled double quotes are DCL conventions for
  having a single double quote in a quoted string.

- with the open or find file command:
	Find file: node"username password"::filename

Please be aware, JED is doing C style I/O over the net. For large files this
is not as efficient as a DECnet copy.
