Text Editor API. Scintilla for experimental IDE. Do you use something else?

Question

I have discovered Scintilla/Notepad++ API this week end. As there is a nice Template vcproj for Notepad++ Plugins available on line then I could start to play with some pseudo code-source really really fastly.

I have just looked briefly at the Scintilla documentation which expose the API which looks promising. Sometimes it is still hazy for me, sometimes not as feature-full as I expect/dream, but that's really meaningless details for now.

So now it is time I experiment with a language of my fancy, for the moment I nickname it "Entity". And what best to do than design a light IDE for it.

So I am going to invest much time in Notepad++/Scintilla environement.

I have have not thought about using Emacs because I never got accustomed to it.

But if you use another type of Text Editor API than Scintilla, preferably in C++ since it is my language experience... what other Text Editor API would you use/have you used ?

Just want to be sure of my choice before diving deeper.

Answer 1

I found Scintilla to be very feature-packed, and covered everything I needed. You have to do a bit of work to get all the functionality out of it (ensuring that keyboard short-cuts perform the desired effect, etceteras), but it was incredibly easy to compile, include and get working, though as I said you have to do a bit of legwork to get everything out of it, but this is better than having to tear your hair out getting an "all-purpose" control to stop doing something you don't want to. It is as if the authors have given you a toolbox to work with.