Scintilla and SciTE Release version 1.0.
Site last modified May 17 1999.

Scintilla and SciTE are no longer beta - this means that I think they are fairly stable and are unlikely to crash under normal use. There will certainly still be bugs in there so watch out for them and please send me mail if you see one.
I am going on an overseas holiday until mid September and will not have an opportunity to do much coding work on this project while away. I'll still be reading my email whenever possible, although less frequently, possibly once a week depending on where 'net access can be found.
The name of the editor application has changed from "Tide" to "SciTE" to avoid confusion with a TCL based IDE.

Scintilla is a free source code editing component. As well as features found in standard text editing components, Scintilla includes features especially useful when editing and debugging source code. These include support for syntax styling, error indicators, code completion and call tips. The selection margin can contain markers like those used in debuggers to indicate breakpoints and the current line. Styling choices are more open than with many editors, allowing the use of proportional fonts, bold and italics, multiple foreground and background colours and multiple fonts.
It comes with complete source code and may be used in any free project or commercial product.

SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration programs as well as SciTE and Scintilla, themselves.

Development of Scintilla started as an effort to improve the text editor in PythonWin. After being frustrated by problems in the Richedit control used by PythonWin, it looked like the best way forward was to write a new edit control. The biggest problem with Richedit and other similar controls is that they treat styling changes as important persistent changes to the document so they are saved into the undo stack and set the document's dirty flag. For source code, styling should not be persisted as it can be mechanically recreated.
PythonWin builds 124 and 125 include copies of Scintilla.
In general, the best strategy to use with combining Scintilla and PythonWin is to use the version of Scintilla included with PythonWin as newer versions may not be compatible.
Scintilla 1.0 is not compatible with PythonWin 125, but should be compatible with PythonWin 126.

Scintilla and SciTE are currently available for Intel Win32 and Linux with GTK+. They have been run on Windows 95, NT, and Red Hat Linux 4.2 with GTK+ 1.2.0. Here is a screenshot of SciTE.

You can download Scintilla and SciTE.

Related sites.

Bugs and To Do list.

History.

You can write to me, Neil Hodgson, at neilh@hare.net.au.