SciTE-with-python details

Biggest additions to SciTE

• You can write plugins that use the Python standard library, write to disk, and shell out to other tools

• 28 built-in plugins for quickly editing html/xml, debugging .py scripts, and jumping to the definition of a method or function in Python or C

• Plugins can register for events like OnKey and OnOpen, listen for multi-key keyboard shortcuts, and even show an interactive GUI inside the code editor

• The Find-text-in-files dialog now has regular expression support

• Customize keyboard bindings on all platforms by editing menukey in a properties file

• When multiple editor windows are open, the current search term is shared between processes

Default plugins

Details

• Word count/sum...

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• Change lines...

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  • Natural sort order means that 2 will sort before 10, and so on.

• Coding reference...

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• Search for selected word

  • Search for selected word (declaration) -- looks for the symbol's declaration, typically in a .h header

  • Search for selected word (definition) -- looks for the symbol's implementation, supports .c, .cpp, .py

  • All references -- looks for all occurrences of selected word, even in strings or comments

  • When a search is run, if there is a file named SciTE.properties in the same directory as the current file, we'll read this file and look for a line like customcommand.code_search_c_declaration.directory_depth=2. The number 2 tells SciTE to search files in the current directory, its parent, and its grandparent.

• Autocompletion

  • Automatically closes xml tags, html tags, parentheses, and quotes

  • Can be disabled in properties with a line like auto.close.quotes=1

• Print local variables upon exception

  • In a Python script, press Ctrl+F7 to run the script, and if an unhandled exception occurs, the values of local variables will be shown (based on ActiveState recipe 52215)

  • Add a line that contains only the text DEBUG to add a breakpoint

  • Also, select an expression and type Ctrl+Shift+Y to add a print statement

• Designate "disabled directories"

  • Sometimes you might want to remind yourself that certain files shouldn't usually be edited. When you open a file in a disabled directory, the background will be bright red, as a visual indicator to be careful.

  • To add a disabled directory, add something like this to your properties file

    customcommand.disable_directory.disabled_directories=\
    |/home/example/disableddir1\
    |/home/example/disableddir2\

• Switch to file in corresponding folder

  • Sometimes you'll have two copies of a codebase in separate directories. This plugin lets you quickly switch from one directory's version of a file to another

  • For example, there are two files, /home/example/branch1/foo/bar/code.cpp and /home/example/branch2/foo/bar/code.cpp

  • Press Ctrl+Shift+; to open user.properties and add the line

    customcommand.switch_to_corresponding_dir.directorymappings=\
    ||/home/example/branch1|/home/example/branch2

  • Now when editing /home/example/branch1/foo/bar/code.cpp, Ctrl+Shift+F10 will open the corresponding file

• More features

  • Press Ctrl+D to duplicate a line and Ctrl+Shift+D to duplicate selection

  • Press Ctrl+Shift+O to open selected the text as a file (e.g. click import mymodule in your Python code and press Ctrl+Shift+O to open mymodule.py)

  • SciTE supports dozens of additional languages like Haskell, Java, and C#, see here

• Insert sequence

  Let's say you want to write the sequence

    data1 = getData1();
    data2 = getData2();
    data3 = getData3();

  First, write

    data@ = getData@();
    data@ = getData@();
    data@ = getData@();

  Then select the text and press Ctrl+I, 0 to run Insert Sequential Numbers

  Let's say you want to write the sequence

    dataRed = getDataRed();
    dataGreen = getDataGreen();
    dataBlue = getDataBlue();

  First, write

    data@Red@ = getData@@();
    data@Green@ = getData@@();
    data@Blue@ = getData@@();

  Then select the text and press Ctrl+I, 0 to run Insert Sequential Numbers