23  Features

• 23.1  Available highlighters

• Advanced editor (the main feature):
  • syntax highlighting for about 40 languages, and one custom highlighter, fully customizeable.
  • Autocomplete like in Delphi with Popup List (5.11).
  • Autocorrect individual for all languages.
  • Bookmarks and other customizeable markers.
  • Fully customizable shortcuts.
  • Many advanced edit commands.
  • Column selection mode.
  • Powerful search and replace with regular expressions + incremental search (5.13.3).
  • unlimited undo and redo.
  • Highlight matching brackets.
  • Highlight current line.
  • Different markers available.
• Start command line programs (Compiler, Interpreter or whatever) and capture the Output + Regular Expressions to parse the output with so called "Profiles" (5.1). Profiles can contain more programs, which are executed one after the other. For example, one Profile may contain a Compiler, Assembler and Linker.
• Communicate with console programs, i.e. write something to StdIn, while a console program is running.
• You can use it as Console window with all the edit features syn offers, see Section 5.3.
• Scripting using your favorite script language (VBScript, JScript) with custom forms (modal dialogs only) + execute scripts on certain events.
• Direct support for ctags¹ to obtain a list of functions in the active document.
• Configurable tools (Start a program, Insert a String into the Editor or execute an Editcommand).
• Spell checker + check spelling while you're typing.
• Export to HTML, RTF and L^AT_EX.
• Autodetect linebreak styles (DOS, UNIX or Mac), and convert them.
• Convert between different codepages (KOI8-R, ISO 8859, DOS, Mac).
• Print and print preview with syntax highlighting in color.
• Organize your files in projects (5.6). Such projects can have their own profiles and tools.
• Drag and drop support (open or insert files).
• Ability to read and write Delphi binary form files (5.4).
• Assign to any syntax scheme a custom help file and call it via a hotkey (5.15).
• Edit documents directly on a FTP server + Proxy support (5.16).
• File Explorer (5.17).
• Saves bookmarks and caret position for each file, if you wish (8.14).
• Optional tray icon interface (18).
• Find and replace in Files (5.13.4) + Regular Expressions (16).
• Document templates.

23.1  Available highlighters

1. 86HC11 Assembler
2. ADSP21xx
3. AWK Scripts
4. Baan
5. Borland Form definitions
6. C#
7. C++
8. Cache Object Script
9. CA-Clipper
10. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
11. COBOL
12. COBRA IDL
13. Fortran
14. FoxPro
15. Galaxy
16. GW-TEL Script
17. HP48 Assembler
18. HTML
19. INI Files
20. Inno Setup Scripts²
21. Java
22. JavaScript/JScript
23. KiXtart
24. Modelica
25. Modula-3
26. MS-DOS Batch scripts
27. MS Visual Basic Script/VBScript
28. My Inno Setup Extensions³
29. Object Pascal
30. Perl
31. PHP
32. Progress
33. Python
34. R⁴
35. Ruby Script Language⁵
36. SQL
37. Standard ML
38. TCL/Tk
39. TeX²⁰
40. UNIX Shell Scripts
41. Visual Basic
42. x86 Assembly
43. XML
44. One customizable Highlighter (5.10)
45. One HTML Highlighter which supports embedded CSS, JavaScript and PHP.

1

ctags is a program which parses textfiles and emits useful informations of this textfile. ctags is Free Software and can be downloaded from http://ctags.sourceforge.net/.

2

Inno Setup is an outstanding setup generator, and it's for free, go to http://www.jrsoftware.org/. The setup for syn has also been created with Inno Setup.

3

A combination of Inno Setup and Object Pascal.

4

R is a programming language for statistical calculations, you can get it from http://www.r-project.org/.

5

Ruby is a free object-oriented script language, http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/index.html.

6

TeX is the language with which the Manual has been created, an excellent distribution for Windows is MiKTeX, you can get it for free from http://www.miktex.org/.