Over on SitePoint.com today, there's a new review from Scott Beatty of the Open Source text editor jEdit.

If you're looking for a free (donationware), open source text editor for PHP scripts, I recommend that you try jEdit. This is a mature, Java-based programmer's text editor with an excellent set of core features, plus many more that can be added via "plugins".

Though jEdit is strongest at supporting Java, it does a pretty good job with PHP, and its core strengths work with any language. For PHP it doesn't qualify as an IDE, or Integrated Development Environment, though it does share some features with the latter, including syntax highlighting and FTP. Some of the PHP IDE features that it lacks are debugging, and code completion.

He covers some of the features of the application, including the plugins he found useful including one for PHP syntax highlighting and a PHP 4 parser. Other handy built-in features include FTP connections, folding, user-defined macros, and XML/HML tag matching/highlighting.