SciTE or SCIntilla based Text Editor is a cross-platform

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written by Neil Hodgson using the Scintilla editing component. It is licensed under a minimal version of the Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer. Lightweight and built for speed, it is designed mainly for

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editing, and performs

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and inline function reference for many different languages. There is a standalone

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available for Microsoft Windows, intended for

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. SciTE shares some features with other editors based on the Scintilla editing component such as

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and Notepad++.

History

SciTE was first released in 1999.

Customization

SciTE is highly configurable. Although there is no graphical

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window, settings can be altered by editing plain text configuration files. It is possible to have different settings for each language and project, as well as global or per user options. There are menu options in the standard install to open these files in the editor. These allow a high level of customization over things like shortcut keys, tabbing,

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, fonts, and syntax highlighting. In addition, the

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programming language is embedded in SciTE, allowing the user further customization. One can write Lua scripts that have access to the contents of the buffer and the Scintilla API. The scripts can be triggered by a shortcut key, or on an event, providing the possibility for implementing auto-complete or other hook. As early as 2003, 21 localizations of the menu texts and support of 36 different programming languages and other code formats was available, and the editor was capable of automatic conversion between line separator styles of different platforms and of detecting

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files. SciTE can export plain text files in

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Features

Features include replace in selection,

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replace with subgroups, find in files, code folding,

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files, copy formatted,

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, multiple selection, and support for variable width fonts. The editing layout consists of multiple tabs containing source, and additionally an output pane that displays output from scripts that have been run. SciTE supports syntax highlighting of many languages. The full list of recognized languages can be found in the official documentation. With version 4.0.5, large file support is possible. With version 4.1.0, it has experimental support for right-to-left languages, like

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Scite Free HTML editors Free text editors Linux text editors Lua (programming language)-scriptable software Software that uses Scintilla Text editors that use GTK Windows text editors

History

Customization

Features

See also

References

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