Site last modified May 9 2000
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A free source code editing component for Win32 and GTK+ |
Release version 1.25 Site last modified May 9 2000 |
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| Version 1.2 is a major release featuring multiple views of one document and rectangular selection. |
| Version 1.21 fixes bugs, enhances performance, and adds margins to Scintilla and an XML lexer to SciTE. |
| Version 1.22 adds line folding, macro recording and a large number of smaller features. |
| Version 1.23 breaks Scintilla from SciTE and fixes bugs. |
| Version 1.24 fixes bugs. |
| Version 1.25 adds some Unicode support on Windows. |
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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.
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
neilh@scintilla.org.
There is a
scintilla-interest
mailing list,
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, averaging less than 20 messages per week.