SciTE

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SciTE
Basic data

developer Neil Hodgson
Publishing year 1999
Current  version 4.3.0
( January 16, 2020 )
operating system Windows , GNU / Linux and other unix systems
programming language C ++
category Text editor
License Scintilla license ( MIT-style license)
German speaking Yes
www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

SciTE ( Sci Ntilla T ext E ditor ) is an open-source - text editor for Windows and Unix-based operating systems (for GTK + -support), for example. B. Linux , BSD and macOS . The program is based on the free editor component Scintilla .

The editor was originally only intended as a simple example of how to use Scintilla. Version 1.0 was released on May 17, 1999, the previous beta versions were released under the name Tide . Over time, SciTE has grown into a complete general-purpose and programming editor. It is small, fast and flexibly adaptable via configuration files and the built-in script language Lua , but compared to other text editors like jEdit or Notepad ++ it has few pre-implemented functions and no macro recorder .

SciTE uses syntax highlighting for over 70 programming languages, code folding and a search function with regular expressions in the standard installation . In addition to ANSI , SciTE also supports UTF-8 and UCS-2 encodings. There are adaptations with autocomplete etc. a. for the languages C # , C ++ , Java , Lua, Perl , PHP , Python and AutoIt .

The user interface of SciTE is translated into over 30 languages.

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Commons : SciTE  - collection of images, videos and audio files