EControl Syntax Editor SDK Review

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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...

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Please contact EControl Syntax Editor SDK publisher, EControl Ltd. if you have questions or issues regarding this product.

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