Scintilla (software)

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SciTE using the Scintilla edit control

Scintilla is an open-source code-editing component. The most well-known application of Scintilla is SciTE, a free text editor that contains many useful features for building simple programs.

Features

Scintilla supports many features to make code editing easier in addition to syntax highlighting. The highlighting method allows the use of different fonts, colors, styles and background colors, and is not limited to fixed-width fonts. The control supports error indicators, line numbering in the margin, as well as line markers such as code breakpoints. Other features such as code folding and autocompletion can be added.

Editors based on Scintilla

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