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jEdit slow on Linux

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Mar 15, 2026742 views
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Jedit is a great text editor, and I love that it is truly cross-platform. I usually use it on windows and just recently spent a long while working on some stuff on my linux box and noticed a large difference in performance. Switching between buffers, in particular, takes much longer than on windows…

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I'm using ... latest version of Java from Sun Did you install from the Sun website, or from the Ubuntu repository (sun-java6-jre)? If you installed from the repo, you might still be using the default Java version instead, which can be rather slow. R…

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