Komodo IDE 5.2 Features

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Multi-language Editor

Call Tips

Autocomplete

Focus on what your code can do; let your editor sweat the details.

• Multi-language Support

  • 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 Call Tips

  • 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 with UDL.
• Standard Editing Features

  • code formatting
  • code commenting
  • auto-indent
  • block selection
  • column editing
• Syntax Checking

  Instant feedback for all fully-supported languages.
• Syntax Coloring

  Spot errors easily and improve readability and context, even in multi-language files.
• 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.
• View HTML Source

  Drag and drop a URL onto Komodo (http://, https://), Komodo now offers to view the source contents of this web page. This is convenient for checking the underlying HTML source code of web pages.
• 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.
• History

  Navigation (forward and back) buttons and a drop list in the toolbar that let you browse though the files and buffer locations you've been editing recently.
• Search Highlighting

  Matches are highlighted in the current buffer.
• Editor Hyperlinking

  Ctrl'+'hover' will highlight HTTP hyperlinks under the pointer; 'Ctrl'+'click' will open the URL in the configured browser.
• CSS Color Popup

  Ctrl' + 'hover' over a color value in CSS will display a popup of that color; 'Ctrl'+'click' will open the color picker.
• Primary Language Preferences

  It is now possible to configure which languages you'd like to see as primary languages in Komodo. The primary languages are the first group of languages seen in the language drop-down menus, whilst secondary languages are grouped under the Other sub-menu.
• Sub-language Background Colors

  Give sub-languages a different background color. For example, when editing a HTML file you can set the JavaScript background color to be green and all the JavaScript code will appear as green section block within the editor.

Multi-language Graphical Debugger

Debugger

The most powerful debugging capabilities for dynamic languages, anywhere.

• JavaScript debugging
• Ruby and Ruby on Rails debugging
• PHP debugging
  
• Perl debugging
• Python debugging
• Tcl debugging
  
• XSLT debugging

• 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

Source Code Control Integration

With support for CVS, Perforce, Subversion, Git, Mercurial and Bazaar, share your code your way.

• Standardized SCC commands

  Add, Remove, Edit, Commit, Revert, Update, and Diff. Use one interface for accessing different SCC systems, so you don't have to remember the specific syntax for each one.
• Status

  See the current SCC status of the files you are editing and files in projects.
• Checkout

  A simple wizard for checking out local copies from a repository.
• Revision History

  List a file's revisions and compare them.
• Changelists

  Group associated files together for committing or making patches.

Code Browser

Code Browser (OSX)

Easily navigate source structure in a tree view of code objects. Browse, locate and jump to modules, namespaces, classes, functions and variables. Use the Section List - the ultimate function list - to navigate documents faster than ever (even CSS entries and XML nodes).

DOM Viewer

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

HTTP Inspector

HTTP Inspector (OSX)

Inspect, intercept, and tweak browser-server communications. View and edit individual transactions break on requests or responses, and submit modified traffic.

Interactive Shells

Interactive shells for JavaScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Tcl.

• 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.

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I've been a Komodo customer for almost five years, and couldn't imagine using another editor for my work with dynamic languages. Komodo IDE syntax highlights and auto-completes my Perl, Ruby, XML, SQL, HTML and CSS, allowing my team to write better code more quickly than we ever have.

— Chris Gerber, Pfizer Global Manufacturing

Toolbox

Manage Komodo components, like frequently used files, code snippets, commands, and URLs.

• 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 Toolkit

Rx Toolkit

Build, edit, and debug regular expressions.

• 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

Extend, reorder, and change with customer 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

Automate Komodo IDE with simple scripts.

• 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

Run operating system commands from within Komodo.

• Sophisticated Command Line Function Automation

  Configurable Run Commands, stored in your Toolbox, automate almost any task. They're 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 - like a toolbox, templates, or configuration preferences - between multiple users with a common data directory.

Extensibility

Try a user-built extension or create your own.

• 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.
• Community Extensions

  The Komodo Community Site hosts user-built extensions as well as information on creating your own.

Search

Search

Powerful search tools, inlcuding the best Find & Replace of any IDE.

• 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

PDK Integration

Create Perl executables from within Komodo.

Templates

Create and share files with the basic structure for new files or projects.

• 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

Get the help you need with documentation, forums, FAQs, and support.

• Help

  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.

Built on Mozilla

Built on the Mozilla 1.9 codebase  (same as Firefox 3).

• Source Code

  Komodo IDE is built on the Mozilla platform. Portions of Komodo were created using source code governed by the Netscape Public License (NPL) and the Mozilla Public License (MPL). The source code for the portions of Netscape 6 governed by the NPL and MPL is available from under those licenses.
• Patches

  Komodo IDE is built from the Mozilla source tree. Patches against the Mozilla code base that have been used in Komodo IDE are available on our ftp server.