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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.
v8.5 [Jul 2, 2013]
- Abyss theme: A dark theme for the Komodo user interface has been added. This theme affects the Komodo UI elements outside of the main editor (i.e. different from Komodo color schemes which only affect the main editor colors). You can enable Abyss in the Komodo Appearance preferences.
- PHP 5.5 Support: Added support for PHP 5.5, with two new keywords (yield, finally) and updates to code intelligence to provide the latest API data for PHP 5.5.
- Breadcrumbs: A file and directory navigation bar has been added to the Komodo statusbar. This bar shows the directory ancestors relative to the current editor file, allowing you to easily find and open related files. You can use mouse and/or keyboard to navigate entries and filter down the list of files displayed.
- Multiple Selections: In addition to Komodo's rectangular (column) editing, you can now have multiple caret positions in the editor. Typing or editing commands will be reflected at all caret locations. Use the editors right click contextual menu and choose the 'Select > Multiple Selection - Add', then you can use Ctrl+Click (Cmd+Click on the Mac) to place additional carets and selections.
- Button Menu: Komodo can now be configured to use a collapsed toolbar button menu, instead of a full menu bar (does not apply to Mac OS X). This can be useful when you want to maximize your vertical editing space. A bonus of this feature is that the last used menu items will also be displayed in the top-level of the button menu, making it quick and easy to run the same menu command again.
- Python Symbols: Added two-character length triggering for Python symbols. For example, when you type "im" you'll now see completions for "import" as well as any local variables, functions, classes and builtins that are in scope and have a name starting with "im".
- Code Intelligence Out-Of-Process: Komodo's code intelligence system (code scanning, calltips, completions, goto definition, refactoring, etc...) is now handled by an external process. Mostly you won't notice any changes in functionality, but this does boost Komodo's responsiveness whilst editing.
- Performance: Various performance tweaks were made to Komodo 8.5 to improve the editing performance, as well as improving the search speed, syntax checking times and general responsiveness of Komodo.
