Tk-CodeText

Tk::Text widget with syntax highlighting and code folding

Tk::CodeText aims to be a Scintilla like text widget for Perl/Tk.

This is a rewrite, almost from scratch and not backwards compatible with version 0.3.4 and earlier.

It uses Syntax::Kamelon for syntax highlighting, code folding and syntax sensitive commenting.

Features:

• line numbers
• code folding
• status bar with document info and tools for setting tab size, indent style and syntax
• advanced word based undo stack that keeps track of the last saving point and selections
• syntax highlighting in many languages and formats.
• commenting and uncommenting blocks and lines
• indenting and unindenting blocks and lines
• automatic indentation
• matching of {}, () and [] pairs

Requirements

Following Perl modules should be installed:

• File::Path
• Math::Round
• Syntax::Kamelon
• Test::Tk
• Tk
• Tk::ColorEntry
• Tk::GtkSettings
• Tk::PopList

Installation

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Sample program codetext

This package comes with a sample script codetext. You can invoke it from the command line after install.

Before install you can do: perl -Mblib bin/codetext

For command line options type: codetext -help