Installation

1. Copy pawn.properties and pawn.api to your SciTE installation directory, e.g. C:\wscite.
2. Copy SciTEUser.properties to your home directory. On Windows it's usually C:\Users\your_name (optional).
3. Open SciTEGlobal.properties (Tools -> Open Global Options File) and add import pawn in the end. This will enable Pawn syntax highlighting for *.pwn and *.inc files.
4. Set SAMP_SERVER_ROOT environment variable to the full path to your server root folder, e.g. C:\samp-server. On Windows this can be done via Control Panel -> System -> Advanced system settings -> Advanced -> Environment variables -> New...
5. Add %SAMP_SERVER_ROOT%\pawno to your PATH or edit pawn.properties and replace pawncc with the full path to the compiler.

Key bindings

The following key bindings are available by default:

• Ctrl + 1 - compile in Release mode (with -d0)
• Ctrl + 2 - compile in Debug mode (with -d3)
• Ctrl + 3 - preprocess only (-l)
• Ctrl + 4 - write assembly code listing (-a)
• Ctrl + 5 - disassemble .amx file (pawndisasm must be present in PATH)

You can change them or create your own by editing pawn.properties (go to menu -> Options -> Open pawn.properties).

Adding a MIME type for Pawn

On Linux file associations are not based on file extensions as opposed to Windows, so you might want to add a MIME type for Pawn files to associate them with SciTE.

To add a MIME type for Pawn scripts on Linux do the following:

1. Copy linux/pawn.xml to /usr/share/mime/packages
2. Run update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
3. Restart your file manager (for nautilus it's nautilus -q)

Troubleshooting

• *No syntax highlighting when editing .inc files

  There's probably another language file imported that uses the same file extension. Try commenting out the #import * in SciTEGlobal.properties and adding these instead:

  import others
  import cpp