Scintilla and SciTE |
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Release version 1.14. Site last modified November 20 1999. |
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 later 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 and SciTE are currently available for Intel Win32 and Linux with GTK+.
They have been run on Windows 95, NT, and on Red Hat Linux 4.2 and Solaris
with GTK+ 1.2.0.
Here is a screenshot of SciTE.
You can download Scintilla and SciTE.
History and contribution credits.
You can write to me, Neil Hodgson,
at neilh@scintilla.org.
There is a mailing list, scintilla-interest, for discussion of Scintilla and SciTE and
related projects, their bugs and future features. It is unlikely that there will be a lot
of traffic in scintilla-interest, probably averaging less than 20 messages per week.
Anyone may write to the list.
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