EControl Syntax Editor SDK

Powerful text editor control with syntax highlighting.

This editor is built using EControl Syntax Editor SDK.

The unique and more important feature is 100% customizable lexer, so you can adjust it for any type of text file. Lexer uses standard VCL resource streaming and stores itself in DFM text format.

Features:

- Delphi 2007 like editor

- Fast working even with huge files (several megabytes)

- Localized: English, Russian, German

- Customizable text folding

- Customizable text structure tree view

- Customizable keymapping

- 100% customizable lexer (syntactical analyzer). Comfortable visual lexer editor

- Nested lexers highlighting.Combining several lexers in one

- Spell checking

- Code templates

- Auto-correction

- Auto-completion pop-up

- Print/ print preview

- Powerful search/replace (regular expressions, search all ...)

- Incremental search

- Export in HTML/RTF

- Copy selection to clipboard in RTF

- Block staples (hierarchical text representation)

- User ranges allows custom lexer independent highlighting and text folding

- Stack-based markers

- Unlimited bookmarks

- Animation

- Normal, column-oriented and line selection, clipboard operations

- Right margin, persistent blocks, keep caret in text and numerous other options

- Smart tags

- Horizontal ruler

- User formatting

Highlighting features:

- Highlighting styles can use any font

- Text region borders (borders is a part of the style)

- Hiding parts of the text using Hidden attribute of the style

- Multilevel style merging

- Dynamical highlighting depended on caret position. Highlights valid blocks (for example, current procedure, brackets, "begin" ... "end" blocks ...)

- Line highlighting

- Text partition by means of line separators like in Visual Basic IDE

- Hyperlinks highlighting

Default Lexer Library contains lexers for file types (over 30): C++, Pascal, Basic, SQL, Delphi Resources, HTML, XML, Style sheets, Ini files, Help Contents, Batch files, PHP...