Multi-language editor

Multi-language support

Advanced support for:

• Browser-side technologies: CSS, HTML, JavaScript and XML
• Server-side languages: Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl
• Web template languages: RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Smarty and Django

Autocomplete and calltips

• Write code faster and shorten the learning curve with code completion that guides you as you work
• CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl, XML and XSLT.
• Schema-based XML/HTML completion
• Multiple-language file support, such as CSS and JavaScript completion in HTML
• Framework support for Rails and Zend
• Support for adding third-party libraries
• Interpreter version differentiation of built-in and standard library information

Multi-language file support

Correct syntax coloring of multi-language files and templated files, common in many web programming frameworks. Add custom language support (User-Defined Languages or UDL, used to provide support for RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Mason, Smarty and Django).

Standard editing features

Code commenting, auto-indent and outdent, block selection, incremental search, reflow paragraph, join lines, enter next character as raw literal, repeat next keystroke and clean line endings on "save."

Syntax checking

Instant feedback for all fully-supported languages.

Syntax coloring

Spot errors easily and improve readability and context, even in multi-language files (unique to Komodo!).

Column Editing

Edit multiple lines at once, insert new columns, remove blocks of code. You may not need it often, but when you do, you really need it.

Abbreviations

Inserts snippets from your toolbox at the touch of a key.

Vi emulation

Modal Vi keybindings emulate navigation, text insertion and command behavior. Custom commands can be implemented by adding Komodo macros to a Vi Commands Toolbox folder.

Emacs keybindings

Emacs-like keybinding scheme supports new editor features modeled on Emacs, such as transient marks (similar to the Emacs "mark ring"), repeat next command and reflow paragraph.

HTML preview

Check HTML, XML and CSS files side-by-side or in a browser, using arbitrary files or URLs.

Multilingual Input Method Editor (IME) support

Use your standard keyboard to enter multi-byte characters, such as Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Code snippets

Store any piece of code for reuse.

Code folding

Work quickly and efficiently with large sections of code.

Multi-document editing

Easily work on multiple documents simultaneously using multiple tab groups, split view, and cross-document search.

Tutorials

Easily master editing features.

Multi-language graphical debugger

The most powerful debugging capabilities for dynamic languages, anywhere.

JavaScript debugging

Debug JavaScript using Firefox and a JavaScript DBGP extension. With the extension enabled, loading JavaScript or triggering JavaScript controls in the browser opens a debugging session in Komodo, which loads the relevant JavaScript code. The JavaScript interactive shell is available from within the debugging session.

Ruby and Ruby on Rails debugging

Komodo is the first IDE to provide professional debugging tools for Ruby and Rails application development. The Ruby interactive shell is available separately or from within debugging sessions. Komodo is the IDE for Ruby and Ruby on Rails!

PHP debugging

Built-in support for PHP debugging with CGI environment simulation.

Perl debugging

Built-in support for Perl debugging, plus a Perl interactive shell, available separately or from within debugging sessions.

Python debugging

Multi-threaded and post-mortem debugging, plus a Python interactive shell, available separately or from within debugging sessions.

Tcl debugging

Built-in support for Tcl debugging, with spawnpoints, plus a Tcl interactive shell, available separately or from within debugging sessions.

XSLT debugging

Built-in support for XSLT debugging, including the ability to find problems in both input data and code with HTML preview.

Standard debugging features

Breakpoints, stepping, watched variables, call stack and more.

Remote debugging

Debug Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl programs running on remote machines, with remote debugging extensions for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

Interactive shells

Experiment with code in real-time. Switch to interactive mode while debugging, and return. Supports JavaScript, Perl, Python, Ruby and Tcl.

Multi-session debugging

Debug multiple applications—even with different languages—simultaneously.

Breakpoint manager

Manipulate breakpoint capabilities and store across debugging sessions.

Debug toolbar

• Break into debugging: stop debugging an application at the current execution point; continue debugging from that point.
• Detach from debugging: stop debugging while application continues to run.

Debugger proxy

Simplify remote and multi-user system debugging with a standard mechanism for Komodo and the remote communication process.

CGI emulation

Full environment control while debugging web applications on your local machine.

DBGP debugger protocol

Add debugging support for any language you want.

Tutorials

Easily master debugging features.

Source code control integration

Revision history

Diff two selected revisions or select one for comparison with the local copy. Use the Change List tab to track and group documents that have been edited.

Integration with CVS, Perforce, and Subversion (SVN)

Add, remove, submit, revert and compare files in SCC repositories asynchronously. Make multi-file commits. The Change List tab to track and group documents that have been edited

Code browser

Easily navigate source structure in a tree view of code objects. Browse, locate and jump to modules, namespaces, classes, functions and variables.

The ultimate function list, so you can navigating documents—including CSS entries and XML nodes—faster than ever.

DOM Viewer

Easily navigate XML, XSLT and HTML in a tree view of the document's DOM structure

HTTP Inspector

Inspect browser-server communications

Examine browser-server communications requests and responses as they happen. A local proxy intercepts HTTP traffic, allowing you to view and edit individual transactions.

Intercept and tweak browser-server traffic

Break on requests or responses and review, edit and submit modified traffic.

Interactive shells

JavaScript

Interactive shell for manipulating JavaScript code, available within JavaScript debugging sessions.

Perl, Python, Ruby and Tcl

Explore, prototype and test your code. Enter statements, expressions and code fragments, independent of program files. Can be used standalone or as a shell that interacts from within a debugging session.

Unit Testing Integration

Run your test suites quickly and find any failure points in your source code fast and extensibility enables you to use your preferred unit testing framework. PHPUnit, Ruby rake test (as used by Ruby on Rails), Perl TAP-based test, PyUnit, and Nose are already integrated.

Toolbox

Store it

Store virtually anything, including configurable "Run" commands, macros, code snippets, URLs, Live and Virtual Folders, templates, menus, toolbars and remote files.

Share it

Share a Toolbox with networked team members or distribute valuable Toolbox items to other Komodo users with the import/export function.

Rx (Regular Expression) Toolkit

Visual interface

Create powerful regular expressions painlessly with node tips, node highlighting and shortcut menus.

Regular expression debugger

Easily evaluate and correct matched patterns. "Match mode" buttons provide Match, Match All, Split, Replace and Replace All.

Regular expressions primer

Tutorial for those new to regular expressions.

Custom toolbars and menus

Personalize and extend

Add custom menus and toolbars for easy access to run commands and snippets or create integrations with third party tools. Associate keybindings and icons with any item.

Macros and triggers

Save time and effort

• Automate regular tasks with editable macros recordings.
• Quickly access record/playback features through the Toolbar.
• Run macros manually, via a keybinding, or based on a variety of Komodo event triggers.

Automate even more

Power users can tap into Komodo's deeper features.

Run Commands

Sophisticated automation of any command line function

Configurable Run Commands, stored in your Toolbox, to automate almost any task. Also able to pass content in either direction between a document in the editor pane and the command line.

Multi-user support

Share important data between multiple users

Share templates, common group-level "Shared Toolbox", "site-wide" common configuration file, and "site-wide" Tcl configuration files.

Extensibility

XPI Extensions

Create your own plug-ins. XPI extension support provides the same capability as Firefox, with all standard Mozilla APIs based on XUL, XBL, and XPCOM, plus our own for Python and JavaScript. We're even using this in Komodo development; for example, when adding UDL-based languages and defining custom language syntax-coloring. Other new features, such as the DOM Viewer, are also extensions. If you've written an extension for Firefox, you'll be comfortable writing one for Komodo.

Search

Find and Replace in Files

Efficiently search directories to locate files containing particular patterns. Located files can be easily loaded into Komodo editor directly from Find Results pane. Replace in Files makes global code changes simple (and the preview and the undo makes it safe).

Find in Project

Quickly locate the code you're looking for.

Open/Find Toolbar

New way to open files and search for strings in currently open files.

Project Manager

Convenient, flexible organization of all project elements, with live folders for the current contents of corresponding file system directory and virtual folders for any project or Toolbox component/

Perl Dev Kit (PDK) Integration

Create Perl executables from within Komodo.

Templates

Project Templates

Easy to create and use, project templates are a great way to implement reusable, sophisticated project-specific functionality, such as rsync, Rails, Zend, etc.

File templates

Language-specific templates and custom template creation, templates and custom template creation, and embeddable macros for date and time stamps.

Documentation

Help (I need somebody)

Including Komodo macro API documentation, all indexed with full text search. Komodo now uses Mozilla's help browser for quick topic searches.

Feature showcases

Visual step-by-step guides to using Komodo's key features.

Tutorials

Learn new languages and language-specific features.

Sample projects

Examples and sample files illustrate what you can do with Komodo.