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Screenshot of SciTE, which uses the Scintilla component
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| Developer(s) | Neil Hodgson, et al.[1] |
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| Initial release | 17 May 1999; 25 years ago (1999-05-17) |
| Stable release | 5.3.6[2]  (26 July 2023; 11 months ago (26 July 2023)) [±] |
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| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Windows NT and later, Mac OS 10.6 and later, Unix-like with GTK+, MorphOS |
| Type | Text editor |
| License | Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer[3] |
| Website | scintilla |
Scintilla is a free, open source library that provides a text editing component function, with an emphasis on advanced features for source code editing.
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. The basic regular expression search implementation is rudimentary, but if compiled with C++11 support Scintilla can support the runtime's regular expression engine. Scintilla's regular expression library can also be replaced or avoided with direct buffer access.
Currently, Scintilla has experimental support for right-to-left languages.[4]
Scinterm is a version of Scintilla for the curses text user interface. It is written by the developer of the Textadept editor. Scinterm uses Unicode characters to support some of Scintilla's graphically oriented features, but some Scintilla features are missing because of the terminal environment's constraints.[5]
Notable software based on Scintilla includes:[14]
Textadept uses Scintilla as its core editing component
Uniface 10 uses Scintilla as its core code editor
