Scintilla Text Editor

A very customizable OpenSource TextEditor for WindowsOperatingSystems, LinuxOs, *BSD, and SolarisOs. It's usually abbreviated to SciTE

http://scintilla.org/

Features

• About 170KB
• Multitabs
• Folding
• Error listing
• Bookmarks
• Syntax coloring for over 40 languages
• Brace matching

Download

• http://scintilla.org/SciTEDownload.html

But the really cool thing is that its engine, Scintilla is OpenSource as well, available for WindowsOs and LinuxOs (GTK), and easy to reuse in a lot of environments.

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Actually Scintilla is just the text editing component. Scite is the text editor. Indeed, Scite stands for SCIntilla Text Editor.

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SciTE is one of the best editors I've ever met. It requires some hardcore sex with its config files to become ergonomic, but after that it <trolling>is better than Emacs</trolling>. After all, what other freeware editor has human-oriented interface, folding, brace matching and 40 languages supported?

<trolling>Vim, perhaps?</trolling>

<notTrollingItsaFact>jEdit</notTrollingItsaFact>

Yeah, but guys, he rigged the argument by saying "human oriented". That means he automatically wins just by defining fans of other editors as non-human. ;-)

I do. O'kay, MS Windows-oriented. jEdit, you say? Hm... It loads slowly, and I don't like the way it highlights matching brackets. Though it's a good editor, it seems. (See JayEdit)

GeanyEditor has all that and is more oriented toward humans than SciTE. It also uses Scintilla

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Scite bundles with the PragmaticProgrammers?' distro of RubyLanguage but, irritatingly, its scripts tune it slightly closer to Perl than Ruby. UseTheSourceLuke.

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Peculiarly, piping the selection through an external utility (as in vi's :!fmt) only works on Windows, not GTK. That, combined with the lack of a reasonable built-in paragraph-justification command (as in vim's gq, EnEdit's ctrl-j, etc ...) makes it unusuable for email on *NIX.

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CategorySoftwareTool, CategoryTextEditor