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<h2>Notes on the Isabelle/jEdit Prover IDE</h2>
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<li>The original jEdit look-and-feel is generally preserved, although
some default properties have been changed to accommodate Isabelle
(e.g. the text area font).</li>
<li>Formal Isabelle/Isar text is checked asynchronously while editing.
The user is in full command of the editor, and the prover refrains
from locking portions of the buffer etc.</li>
<li>Prover feedback works via tooltips, syntax highlighting, colors,
boxes etc. based on semantic markup provided by Isabelle in the
background.</li>
<li>Using the mouse together with the modifier key <tt>C</tt>
(<tt>CONTROL</tt> on Linux or Windows,
<tt>COMMAND</tt> on Mac OS) exposes additional information.</li>
<li>Dockable panels (e.g. <em>Output</em>) are managed as independent
windows by jEdit, which also allows multiple instances.</li>
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