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For those who weren't aware, scintilla forms the basis of the popular Notepad++ Windows text editor.
by PBondurant 4y ago
For those who weren't aware, scintilla forms the basis of the popular Notepad++ Windows text editor.
- signaru 4y agoand Notepad++ itself sometimes gets bundled with other software.
- vitorsr 4y agoThe Qt port of Scintilla is also used by a number of projects as a lightweight editor component: $ lsb_release -d && apt rdepends libqscintilla2-qt5-15 Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS libqscintilla2-qt5-15 Reverse Depends: Depends: libqscintilla2-qt5-dev (<< 2.11.6+dfsg+1~) Depends: sqlitebrowser (>= 2.11.2) Depends: sonic-pi (>= 2.11.2) Depends: qgis-providers (>= 2.11.2) Depends: python3-qgis (>= 2.11.2) Depends: python3-pyqt5.qsci (>= 2.11.2) Depends: openscad (>= 2.11.2) Depends: octave (>= 2.11.2) Suggests: libqscintilla2-qt5-l10n Depends: libqscintilla2-qt5-dev (>= 2.11.6+dfsg) Depends: juffed (>= 2.11.2) Depends: libqscintilla2-qt5-designer (>= 2.11.2) Depends: libqgis-gui3.22.4 (>= 2.11.2) Depends: libqgis-app3.22.4 (>= 2.11.2)
- hesdeadjim 4y agoIt feels like an eternity ago, but an editor I wrote in Qt for a game did exactly this so you could write Lua inline on objects.
- Narishma 4y agoDoesn't Qt already have an editor component?
- lmm 4y agoIt does, but IIRC Scintilla is more full-featured (e.g. I think it has better syntax highlighting support).
- anta40 4y agoWhenever I work on Windows machines, Notepad++ is a must to have. But usually, SciTE is more than sufficient: https://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html https://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html and also works fine on Linux.
- wink 4y agoI remember using SciTE in the early 00s. Apart from some oddities of displaying italic text in a weird way it was a perfectly cromulent editor and you could start it, do your task, and close it before eclipse had even finished the loading screen :P