The scripts can be triggered by a shortcut key, or on an event, providing the possibility for implementing auto-complete or other hook.Īs 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 Unicode files. One can write Lua scripts that have access to the contents of the buffer and the Scintilla API. In addition, the Lua programming language is embedded in SciTE, allowing the user further customization. These allow a high level of customization over things like shortcut keys, tabbing, code folding, fonts, and syntax highlighting.
There are menu options in the standard install to open these files in the editor. It is possible to have different settings for each language and project, as well as global or per user options. Although there is no graphical preferences window, settings can be altered by editing plain text configuration files. SciTE shares some features with other editors based on the Scintilla editing component such as Geany and Notepad++.
exe available for Microsoft Windows, intended for USB flash drives.
Lightweight and built for speed, it is designed mainly for source editing, and performs syntax highlighting and inline function reference for many different languages. It is licensed under a minimal version of the Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer. SciTE or SCIntilla based Text Editor is a cross-platform text editor written by Neil Hodgson using the Scintilla editing component. Afrikaans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Spanish (Mexico), Estonian, Basque, Finnish, French, Galician, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovene, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian