Scintilla and SciTE SciTE Icon Release version 1.14.
Site last modified November 20 1999.
Version 1.1 is a major release containing heavily restructured code with a few new features including inter-application drag and drop. The restructuring was done to ease porting Scintilla to new platforms and to break up the former monolithic Scintilla class into smaller blocks that should be easier to understand and modify. There is an overview of the new design. There are also some new features which are detailed on the history page.
Version 1.13 fixes compilation problems with the most recent versions of GCC on both Linux and Windows.
Control characters are now visible.
Performance has improved, particularly for scrolling.
Windows RichEdit emulation is more accurate.
The Future Features page includes information on proposed Scintilla features and allows downloading beta versions of Scintilla.
Version 1.14 fixes a scrolling bug reported on GTK+.

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.

Related sites.

Bugs and To Do list.

History and contribution credits.

You can write to me, Neil Hodgson, at neilh@scintilla.org.
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