Zeus vs jEdit

[kleinfelter]

I'm looking for a new editor. Two of the top contenders are jEdit and Zeus. A big plus of Zeus is the standard Windows interface. However, jEdit (plus plugins) continues to introduce me to features I didn't know I needed until I saw them. For most of them, I've been able to figure out how to make Zeus do something similar.

One jEdit feature I'd like to emulate in Zeus is on-the-fly highlighting of parse errors in Ruby code. For example, if I have a file containing:

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if x == 42
    y = y + 1
end
end

jEdit will put a red line under the second end. It runs the Ruby parser when there's a 1 second (configurable interval) pause in keystrokes.

Is there a way to make Zeus do this?

[jussij]

There is no option to make Zeus do this

Zeus tries very hard not to favour any one particular language and as such it leaves the syntax checking to the compiler

Jussi