ActiveState - Compare Komodo Edit and Komodo IDE
Intelligent editor or full-featured development environment? Choose your dragon.
Komodo Edit is a free, multi-language editor with code intelligence. Komodo IDE builds on Komodo Edit's comprehensive editing features, adding intelligent tools for debugging, regular expressions, team development and customization.
Feature Comparison
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Multi-language Editor 

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Browser-side:
CSS, HTML, JavaScript and XML
Server-side:
Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl
Web template:
RHTML, Template-Toolkit, Smarty and Django
Focus on what your code can do; let your editor sweat the details. Komodo IDE's multi-language editor makes writing quality code easy. Background syntax checking and syntax coloring catch errors immediately, while autocomplete and calltips guide you as you write. Includes support for browser-side and mixed-language code.
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Debugging 
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Komodo IDE leads the way in dynamic language application debugging. Now, with the addition of JavaScript debugging, the first professional IDE for debugging Ruby and Rails is also the first to unify web application debugging in one workspace. Powerful capabilities include remote and multi-threaded debugging, conditional breakpoints and runtime variable editingall using DBGP, the open source debugger protocol standard co-authored by ActiveState.
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Interactive Shells 
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Interactive shells for JavaScript, Perl, Python, Ruby and Tcl give you the power to explore ideas while you code, or try "what if" scenarios while debugging. Komodo IDE's interactive Perl shell—the only one of its kind—lets you dynamically explore the power of Perl like never before.
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Project Manager 

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Your left brain will appreciate the logical convenience of Komodo's project organization. Simplify creating and sharing projects, with support for multiple projects, folders (including new Live Folders) and SCC integration, plus easy import and export of project packages.
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Toolbox 

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Your right brain will enjoy Komodo's free-form organizer, the Toolbox. Independent of projects, the Toolbox is a handy, persistent work tray for anything: code snippets, Run Commands, macros, URLs and much more.
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HTTP Inspector 
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Interactive access to browser-server communication means complete control over web application quality. View requests and responses - even break and edit them - before continuing with the submission.
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DOM Viewer 
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Take the legwork out of maintenance on other people's code or your own long-forgotten scripts. The new DOM Viewer you can easily navigate XML, XSLT and HTML in a tree view of the document's DOM structure.
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Rx (Regular Expression) Toolkit 
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Solving a tricky regular expression? The Rx Toolkit makes it simple. Create powerful regular expressions painlessly with node tips, node highlighting and shortcut menus. Easily evaluate and correct matched patterns with the regular expression debugger.
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Code Browser 
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Easily navigate source structure in a tree view of code objects. Browse, locate and jump to modules, namespaces, classes, functions and variables.
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SCC Integration 
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Support for CVS, Perforce and Subversion source code control. Security and flexibility for your work, and the backbone for team development. Source Code Control (SCC) functions are tightly integrated into the UI, with status icons and easy access to common tasks.
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PDK Integration 
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For Perl programmers, ActiveState's Perl Dev Kit (PDK) is the best way to deploy your applications. Komodo's integration with PDK makes it easy to build ready-to-use executables right from your Komodo workspace. Simplicity for your users, security and reliability for you. Subscribe to ActivePerl Pro Studio and get Komodo IDE, Perl Dev Kit and more, for one low price.
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