1 Introduction
This program is a text file and program source editor with syntax highlight support for
about 40 different languages. it aims to have some basic IDE (Integrated Development
Environment) behaviour : integrated because it should integrate more programs
(editor, compiler, debugger etc.) into one features. This kind of features is
like launching a compiler (5.1), or any other
program, and redirecting the output to this program, Find in Files
(5.13.4), supports projects, but the
main feature of syn is the advanced editor with powerful edit and search functions.
For a more complete list of features please refer to 23.
The intention for writing this program was to make a small and fast
syntax editor, and later to make a small and fast IDE-like program,
not a replacement for notepad. This is the reason for not supporting
automatic linebreak, like notepad, as it is unusual for programming editors.
Sure, it would be neat for HTML Documents, but this isn't a HTML
editor either. If you're looking for a replacement for
notepad try EDXOR1
an excellent editor which offers all the features from notepad (e.g shows
binary files to the end) and much more. The size is only 21 KB and it's
terrificly fast. We use syn mainly for freeware compilers, different
script languages, but also for HTML documents.
This program is based on the MDI (Multiple Document Interface),editor sample
of the SynEdit editor component suite. MDI means that you can have many
documents within one program, check it out:
http://synedit.sourceforge.net/.
If you want to link to syn use the buttons available on the Resources page of the
website, with the address
http://syn.sourceforge.net/.
Thanks to all of you users who have tested this program, helped us in bug tracking, made
great suggestions and buttons for this program. People who have contributed essentially to the
code of the program or documentation or in other way are listed in the Credits (A) section.
Without their help and work and providing all or almost all that for free, or free for noncommercial use,
syn would not be what it is now, or it would not exist at all.
Anyway, we hope you'll enjoy this piece of software, and it will not hassle you too much.
We don't want to risk your mental health. Have a lot of fun!