Scintilla (editing component)

Infobox Software
name = Scintilla



caption = Screenshot of SciTE, which uses the Scintilla component
developer = Neil Hodgson, et al.
released = May 17 1999
latest release version = 1.76
latest release date = March 16 2008
latest preview version =
latest preview date =
programming language = C++
platform = Cross-platform
language =
license = Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer
website = http://www.scintilla.org/

Scintilla is an open source library that provides text-editing functions, with an emphasis on advanced features for source code editing. SciTE (cross-platform) and Notepad++ (Windows) are standalone editors based on Scintilla.

Features

Scintilla supports many features to make code editing easier in addition to syntax highlighting. The highlighting method allows the use of different fonts, colors, styles and background colors, and is not limited to fixed-width fonts. The control supports error indicators, line numbering in the margin, as well as line markers such as code breakpoints. Other features such as code folding and autocompletion can be added.

Editors based on Scintilla

* Anjuta
* Boa Constructor
*
* FlashDevelop
* Geany
* gPHPedit
* Kephra
* Komodo
* Notepad++
* Notepad2
* [http://padre.perlide.org Perl Application Development and Refactoring Environment (Padre)]
* Programmer's Notepad 2
* SciTE
* Sphere

External links

* [http://www.scintilla.org/ Project Website]