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Slickedit




name = SlickEdit
  screenshot <!-- Do not change unless you have read "Wikipedia:Software_screenshots"! -->
  latest Release Version 11
  developer SlickEdit, Inc
  operating System Cross-platform
  genre Source Code Editor and IDE
  license Proprietary
  website wwwslickeditcom


SlickEdit is a cross-platform Source Code Editor and Integrated Development Environment (IDE) by SlickEdit, Inc. SlickEdit provides Syntax Highlighting , code navigation and a customizable Keyboard Shortcut s. The latest version, 11, also supports Code Template s.


HISTORY

SlickEdit started as a source code editor with features such as syntax highlighting, code refactoring, Macro s, and key bindings (keyboard shortcuts) compatible with many mainstream text editors including Vim (text Editor) and Emacs . It has progressively been augmented with more features, such as integrated debugging sessions, to compete with mainstream Compiler s and Source Code Management systems as an IDE.

In SlickEdit 11, Vi emulation was upgraded to Vim emulation.

SlickEdit 2007 (version 12.0) was released in March 2007. Some of the notable improvements in SlickEdit 2007 include:

  • Drag and Drop Support for KDE and Gnome

  • Enhanced Symbol Preview

  • New Class Tool Window

  • Enhanced Symbol Preview

  • XML/HTML Formatting

  • Java Live Errors Using Java Compiler

  • Improved Python and C++ Tagging

  • Improved C++ Refactoring

  • Improved Vim emulation


As of July 29, 2007, SlickEdit 2007 is at version 12.0.2 and cumulative hotfixes are at "revision 8", or "12.0.2 R8" for short.


SUPPORTED LANGUAGES


SlickEdit supports a wide variety of Programming Language s, including: SlickEdit's supported languages

It also supports some other languages for syntax highlighting alone. Like most other code editors, SlickEdit allows the user to add support for additional languages and to modify the way it operates on the ones listed above.


OPERATING SYSTEMS

SlickEdit runs on a number of Operating System s, including: SlickEdit's supported operating systems

(SlickEdit also supported OS/2 until version 4.0b.)


SLICK-C

Slick-C the proprietary Script Language of the editor. Much of the editor is actually written in Slick-C, and all the Slick-C source code is included in with the product. This means that the user can take a look at how things work and modify the behavior to suit her/his needs better.

The language is C-like as the name suggest, though it has some elements from REXX (parse, say, ...). These REXX feature probably stems from the early days when the editor was making use of a REXX derived scripting language.


SUPPORT

In addition to direct support for customers, SlickEdit also hosts a web forum where users can help one another. SlickEdit support


CRITICISMS

As can be seen by the official support forum and latest change log, SlickEdit 2007 (12.0) was released with many bugs but numerous issues were fixed in versions 12.0.1 and 12.0.2. Additional bugs were fixed in hotfixes, which are bundled in a single file and is at revision 8 as of July 29, 2007.

According to some, SlickEdit suffers from an overabundance of features. In a review of version 11 of SlickEdit, Tom Plunket wrote:


RELATED PRODUCTS

SlickEdit also two related packages which integrate into existing IDE s:


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