Komodo Edit is a

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for

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s. It was introduced in January 2007 to complement ActiveState's commercial

Komodo IDE Komodo IDE is an integrated development environment (IDE) for dynamic programming languages. It was introduced in May 2000. Many of Komodo's features are derived from an embedded Python interpreter. Komodo IDE uses the Mozilla and Scintilla code ...

. As of version 4.3, Komodo Edit is built atop the Open Komodo project. Komodo IDE is no longer supported and maintained by developers for Python.

History

Komodo Edit 4.0 was originally a freeware version of

4.0, released in 2007-02-14. On 2008-03-05, ActiveState Software Inc. announced Komodo Edit 4.3 to be open-sourced software, licensed under Mozilla Public License (MPL), GNU General Public License (GPL), and GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL).

Open Komodo

It is a subset version of Komodo Edit, with initial goal of Web development. The code was to be available between late October or early November 2007, with Open Komodo code repository created by ActiveState in August 2007. On 2007-10-30, ActiveState Software Inc. announced the release of Open Komodo. The initial release was 1.0.0 Alpha 1.

Komodo Snapdragon

It is an announced initiative from ActiveState to create an open source development environment that promotes open standards on the web. It was to be based on Open Komodo.

Features

Many of Komodo's features are derived from an embedded

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interpreter. Open Komodo uses

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and

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to provide its features, including support for many popular languages (including Python,

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, SQL,

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, and

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), across all common

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s (

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, and

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). The editor component is implemented using the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (

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), with the Scintilla view embedded in the XML User Interface Language (

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) interface in the same manner as a web

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. Both Komodo Edit and IDE support user customizing via plug-ins and macros. Komodo plug-ins are based on

Add-ons and extensions can be searched for, downloaded, configured, installed and updated from within the application. Available extensions include a functions list,

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features, additional language support and user interface enhancements. Komodo IDE has features found in an

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(IDE), such as integrated

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support,

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(DOM) viewer, interactive shells,

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control integration, and the ability to select the engine used to run

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s, to ensure compatibility with the final deployment target. The commercial version also adds code browsing, a database explorer, collaboration, support for many popular source code control systems, and more. Independent implementations of some of these features, such as the database editor, Git support, and remote FTP file access, are available in the free version via Komodo Edit's plugin system.

References

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