Open and create codes in a variety of programming and scripting languages, including PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Perl, JavaScript, CSS, XML, HTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Smarty, Djang, and RHTML. View Ruby tools, such as generators, migrate, plugins, and snippets, run tests, debug, generate or delete databases, and edit files within projects.
Komodo Edit is an integrated development environment (IDE) supporting multiple programming and scripting languages, such as Python, Ruby, PHP, Tcl, JavaScript, Perl, HTML, CSS and RHTML. The program has a nice and modern interface, which can easily be adapted to your preferences, mostly regarding the location of the different panes and toolbars. Being an IDE, this tool is mainly oriented to programmers.
The editor comes with various features that can make programming an easier task. You can start a new project from scratch or a template. Likewise, you can use predefined blocks of HTML code. Just like most similar programs, Komodo Edit supports syntax highlighting and intelligent code completion, which can help you avoid typing and syntax mistakes as well as remember complex syntactic structures. Besides, Komodo Edit has its built-in spellchecker. It also supports, multiple selections, paragraph alignment and setting bookmarks. While you write your code, you can verify the results by previewing pages on your default web browser. Finally, it is good that the editor can be run from the command line.
All in all, Komodo Edit works stably and does not use much CPU power. However, it does consume a lot of RAM, which may affect other software running on a computer with low memory resources. The product is open source so it is a great alternative when you are running on a low budget. You should know that there is a similar program by the same developer, which is actually a paid version of the same tool. It is called Comodo IDE and comes with many more features, such as debugging, unit testing, code refactoring, code profiling and integration with other technologies.
v7.1 [Jul 18, 2012]
- Variable Highlighting: Komodo will automatically highlight any variables you click on - and all other occurrences of this variable will also be highlighted. This is extremely useful in distinguishing where you have used a particular variable.
- SCC Push: Komodo now has an interface to push changes for Distributed Source Code Control systems like Git, Mercurial and Bazaar. You can customize where to push to, as well as controlling the targeted branch or tag.
- Stackato Debugging: You can now debug applications that are running in a Stackato Micro Cloud instance... sweet - debug the cloud!
- Komodo Language Extension: You can easily add support for a new language to Komodo (or improve on an existing one). Within minutes, you can have your favourite language being supported by Komodo, with code coloring, commenting and code intelligence features!
- PHP 5.4 Support Full PHP 5.4 support is included. Debugging (Xdebug) has been updated and Code Intelligence supports the new language features like Traits.
- Node.js 0.8 Support Full Node 0.8 support is included. Debugging was updated and Code Intelligence now supports both Node 0.8 and Node 0.6 versions.
- Python 3.3 Support Full Python 3.3 support is included. Debugging and Code Intelligence were updated for this version.
- Perl 5.16 Support Full Perl 5.16 support is included. Debugging and Code Intelligence were updated for this version.
- Ruby 1.9.3 Support Full Ruby 1.9.3 support is included. Debugging (ruby-debug-base) has been updated and Code Intelligence supports both the 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 standard library.
- New Languages
- Twig - PHP template language added (Symfony2)
