Posted by Johnny on 10/13/06 05:03

"Jim Carlock" <anonymous@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> "Veign" <NOSPAMveign1@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Intellisense in PHP would be great.
>
> Hiya Chris and others,
>
> I'm quite pleased with the Scintilla Editor. It has Intellisense.
> I don't step through PHP code, so if it has that feature, I don't
> know about it.
>
> Click on the green "Download Scintilla" button at the following
> link, then scroll down to SciTE.
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/scintilla
>
> It provides a way to way to run the code inside the editor but
> that requires the php.exe to be in the path.
>
> You'll need to grab the php.api and possibly the php.properties
> files at the following link to get the Intellisense going. Scroll down
> to the PHP heading.
> http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTEExtras.html
>
> A link to the debugger is found on this page. I haven't messed with
> it so don't know anything at all about it. Search for PHP and click
> on the link there.
> http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/ScintillaRelated.html
>
> It takes you to: http://gubed.mccabe.nu/
>
> The SciTE editor holds plenty of advantages. It's small in size, does
> very fast search and replaces and it works not only with PHP, but
> with VB as well. Although I haven't tried compiling much of anything
> with it. <g> The whole SciTE package with the API for PHP takes
> up less than 6 MB of disk space and you'll be hard pressed to find
> a better editor. The .properties files it uses aren't too difficult to
> understand and edit and provide everything needed to turn TABS
> on and off, to set TAB sizes for different extensions, etc.
>
> The only disadvantage I've found in it, involves a single line exceeding
> 65,000 characters, the horizontal scroll bar and the line of text starts
> disappearing from the screen. Given that I don't encounter lines of text
> that often it's not too much of a bother.
>
> When you download the php.properties file (if it doesn't come with
> the SciTE download), you might need to add the following lines to
> it, and then download the php.api file as well.
>
> # Set autocompletes
> autocompleteword.automatic=1
> autocomplete.php.fillups=$(SciteDefaultHome)\php.api
>
> Then edit the html.properties file and add the following lines under
> the keywordclass.php keyword list...
>
> # Override keywordclass.php with another file if present
> import phpfunctions
>
> That should take care of it. It's easy to edit the .api files and
> add your own functions to the automatic drop down lists.
>
> The developer of the project, Neil, listens to input for the
> any bugs found in the project. He encourages joining the
> mailing list at SourceForge.Net.
>
> If you run into any questions let me know and I'll help work
> things out. I've committed myself to the editor. I like it a lot.
>
> Hope this helps and enjoy.
>
> --
> Jim Carlock
> Post replies to the group.
>
>

Hiya Jim,

thanks for that valuable info. I've downloaded Scintilla and I'll give it
a try. :-)

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