WJED is a powerful text editor primarily designed for programmers but it's drop-down menu system makes it one of the friendliest text editors. Hence it is ideal for composing simple email messages as well as editing complex programs in a variety of computer languages.

Here are some key features of "WJED":

· 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.
· Rectangular cut/paste
· regular expressions
· incremental searches
· search replace across multiple files
· multiple windows
· multiple buffers
· shell modes; directory editor (dired)
· mail
· rmail
· ispell