Site last modified May 23 2001
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A free source code editing component for Win32 and GTK+ |
Release version 1.38 Site last modified May 23 2001 |
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| Version 1.30 supports PHP well and moves the API towards platform independance. |
| Version 1.31 supports C#, has many improvements and is available as a COM control. |
| Version 1.32 fixes bugs. |
| Version 1.33 has better internationalisation support on GTK+ and fixes bugs. |
| Version 1.34 contains a Pascal lexer, better performance and compliance on GTK+. |
| Version 1.35 contains rewritten widget code for the GTK+ version to enhance solidity and correctly forward events to containers. |
| Version 1.36 supports GTK+ on Win32 and prepares for 64 bit support. |
| Version 1.37 contains simple regular expression search and replace, is compatible with GTK+ 1.2.9, and improves document modification speed by avoiding screen updates. |
| Version 1.38 can use loadable lexer plugins and support Ruby, Lisp and Eiffel. |
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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.
The SinkWorld project investigates possible future directions for Scintilla to make it more flexible, robust, perform better and run on the .NET and Java virtual machines.
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.
Scintilla and SciTE are currently available for Intel Win32 and Linux compatible operating
systems with GTK+. They have been run on Windows 95, NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and on Red Hat
Linux 4.2, 6.1 and Solaris with GTK+ 1.2.0. Here is a screenshot of
SciTE.
You can download Scintilla.
The source code can be downloaded via CVS at the Source Forge Scintilla project page.
History and contribution credits.
The Future Features of Scintilla are canvassed. Please tell me what you want and don't want.
You can write to me, Neil Hodgson, at
nhodgson@bigpond.net.au. If you need to hire someone to work on Scintilla based projects, you can
contact me or advertise on the mailing list.
There is a
scintilla-interest
mailing list,
for discussion of Scintilla and SciTE and related projects, their bugs and future features.
This is a medium traffic list, averaging less than 100 messages per week.