External Script Editors

From Director Online Wiki

1 BBEdit
2 Bluefish
3 Coda
4 Emerald Editor (former "Crimson Editor")
5 EmEditor
6 Smultron
7 SubEthaEdit
8 UltraEdit
9 XEmacs

BBEdit

Editor Link: http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/

Platform: Mac

Definition File Link:

Lingo: http://www.farbflash.de/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/Dokumente/Director/Tools/BBEditCLM.html

Details: language description file and lingo dictionary. There are also other support files for autocompletion and some scripts. (get them here: http://www.farbflash.org/director/tools/BBEdit_Director_Support_Files.cpgz)

Author: Alex da Franca

Bluefish

Editor Link: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/

Platform: Linux, PC

Definition File Link:

Lingo: http://collab.directorforum.com/images/9/9c/Lingo_for_bluefish.zip

Details: It supports syntax hiliting, collapsing of Handlers, IF-blocks, Repeat-blocks and Case-blocks; predictive input is supported as well. Syntax up to D11.5 (except PhysX) supported. *Note: this will only work with the Bluefish-unstable 1.3.4 and higher.

Author: Alexei Vadkovskiy

Coda

Editor Link: http://www.panic.com/coda/

Platform: Mac

Definition File Link:

Lingo: http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/modes/Lingo.mode.zip

Details: auto complete, syntax colouring, symbol definitions

Author: Stephan Huber

Emerald Editor (former "Crimson Editor")

Editor Link: http://www.emeraldeditor.com/, http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

Platform: PC, *NIX, MAC

Definition File Link:

Lingo: It's built into the application since version 3.60. This information is listed under 'Languages' on the editor site.
Lingo 11.5 (incl. PhysX): Donwload 9 KB (zip)

Details: syntax colouring

Author: Vixtor Ventura, Alexei Vadkovskiy (update)