ActiveState Komodo
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Komodo Edit is a highly regarded free
text editor
for dynamic programming language
s. Introduced in January 2007, with the release of version 4.3, Komodo Edit is built on top of the Open Komodo project. In 2011 both products were collectively named the 2011 Macintosh Web Editor of the Year by about.com
Komodo Edit inherits many features of the commercial Komodo IDE, such as a full range of supported languages (including Perl
, PHP
, Python
, Ruby, Tcl
, SQL
, Smarty
, CSS
, HTML
and XML
) and tri-platform support (Linux
, Mac OS X
, and Windows
). Like Komodo IDE, Komodo Edit can edit remote files over FTP and supports user customization through plugins and macros.
It was developed for programmer
s who need a multi-language editor with broad functionality, but not the features of an IDE
, like debugging
, DOM
viewer, interactive shells
, and source code
control integration. Many of Komodo's features are derived from an embedded Python interpreter
Komodo IDE adds features valuable to professional programmers, like the ability to select the engine used to run regular expression
s, in order to ensure compatibility with the final deployment target. The commercial version also adds integrated debugger
support, code browsing, a database explorer and support for many popular source code control systems. Independent implementations of some of these features are available in the free version through the plugin system. As of October 2011, the price for a single-version Komodo IDE licence is USD $295, with a yearly subscription plus support package available for an additional USD $87.
Komodo plug-ins are based on Mozilla
Add-ons - extensions can be searched for, downloaded, configured, installed and updated directly from the application. Available extensions include a functions list, pipe features, additional language support and user interface enhancements.
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
text editor
Text editor
A text editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files.Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code....
for dynamic programming language
Dynamic programming language
Dynamic programming language is a term used broadly in computer science to describe a class of high-level programming languages that execute at runtime many common behaviors that other languages might perform during compilation, if at all...
s. Introduced in January 2007, with the release of version 4.3, Komodo Edit is built on top of the Open Komodo project. In 2011 both products were collectively named the 2011 Macintosh Web Editor of the Year by about.com
About.com
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Komodo Edit inherits many features of the commercial Komodo IDE, such as a full range of supported languages (including Perl
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
, PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
, Python
Python (programming language)
Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...
, Ruby, Tcl
Tcl
Tcl is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout. Originally "born out of frustration", according to the author, with programmers devising their own languages intended to be embedded into applications, Tcl gained acceptance on its own...
, SQL
SQL
SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....
, Smarty
Smarty
Smarty is a web template system written in PHP. Smarty is primarily promoted as a tool for separation of concerns.Smarty is intended to simplify compartmentalization, allowing the presentation of a web page to change separately from the back-end...
, CSS
CSS
-Computing:*Cascading Style Sheets, a language used to describe the style of document presentations in web development*Central Structure Store in the PHIGS 3D API*Closed source software, software that is not distributed with source code...
, HTML
HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
and XML
XML
Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
) and tri-platform support (Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
, Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
, and Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
). Like Komodo IDE, Komodo Edit can edit remote files over FTP and supports user customization through plugins and macros.
It was developed for programmer
Programmer
A programmer, computer programmer or coder is someone who writes computer software. The term computer programmer can refer to a specialist in one area of computer programming or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software. One who practices or professes a formal approach to...
s who need a multi-language editor with broad functionality, but not the features of an IDE
Integrated development environment
An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...
, like debugging
Debugging
Debugging is a methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs, or defects, in a computer program or a piece of electronic hardware, thus making it behave as expected. Debugging tends to be harder when various subsystems are tightly coupled, as changes in one may cause bugs to emerge...
, DOM
Document Object Model
The Document Object Model is a cross-platform and language-independent convention for representing and interacting with objects in HTML, XHTML and XML documents. Aspects of the DOM may be addressed and manipulated within the syntax of the programming language in use...
viewer, interactive shells
Shell (computing)
A shell is a piece of software that provides an interface for users of an operating system which provides access to the services of a kernel. However, the term is also applied very loosely to applications and may include any software that is "built around" a particular component, such as web...
, and source code
Source code
In computer science, source code is text written using the format and syntax of the programming language that it is being written in. Such a language is specially designed to facilitate the work of computer programmers, who specify the actions to be performed by a computer mostly by writing source...
control integration. Many of Komodo's features are derived from an embedded Python interpreter
Komodo IDE adds features valuable to professional programmers, like the ability to select the engine used to run regular expression
Regular expression
In computing, a regular expression provides a concise and flexible means for "matching" strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. Abbreviations for "regular expression" include "regex" and "regexp"...
s, in order to ensure compatibility with the final deployment target. The commercial version also adds integrated debugger
Debugger
A debugger or debugging tool is a computer program that is used to test and debug other programs . The code to be examined might alternatively be running on an instruction set simulator , a technique that allows great power in its ability to halt when specific conditions are encountered but which...
support, code browsing, a database explorer and support for many popular source code control systems. Independent implementations of some of these features are available in the free version through the plugin system. As of October 2011, the price for a single-version Komodo IDE licence is USD $295, with a yearly subscription plus support package available for an additional USD $87.
Komodo plug-ins are based on Mozilla
Mozilla
Mozilla is a term used in a number of ways in relation to the Mozilla.org project and the Mozilla Foundation, their defunct commercial predecessor Netscape Communications Corporation, and their related application software....
Add-ons - extensions can be searched for, downloaded, configured, installed and updated directly from the application. Available extensions include a functions list, pipe features, additional language support and user interface enhancements.