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Linux users have more text editors, IDEs, and command-line tools than a programmer can shake a stick at. If you're looking for a good programming text editor, we recommend Kate. It's super easy to. BBEdit, by Bare Bones Software, is an excellent text editor. Anyone who uses it knows that pure text files do not normally have syntax coloring. But for those users who want to use BBEdit to edit. BBEdit is an excellent text editor for the Macintosh with a large and loyal following of web designers, programmers, and others who use it for their work. This page focuses on tips and tricks for BBEdit users who use BBEdit for HTML or Perl, but also has some tips that will be useful to anyone who uses BBEdit.
There are several off-world editors available for free or to purchase. Some have syntax highlighting for LSL that will make your code easier to follow. At least two will compile and execute a large subset of LSL. Below are some of the more popular editors for use with LSL.
If you have a favorite that is missing from the list, please feel free to add it.
As the description tells you, enter 3 params:
'%s'
will paste script path automatically (dont change this).Examples:
/usr/bin/gedit --new-window '%s'
'C:UsersFirstName LastNameNotepadnotepad++.exe' '%s'
Play store in emulator. Then click the 'Edit..'
button in the script edit window. Save and close editor when done.
Please refer to the page Making_your_own_LSL_syntax_and_autocompletion_files for a list of colors used by Linden Labs for the editor in their viewer as well as a list with current keywords.
Online LSL generators create and edit LSL scripts via a website, some may have syntax highlighting for better reading.Sites are multi-platform editors without downloads:
These projects may have more current LSL highlighting files:
Software: | URL for download: | Issue tracker: | Commercial: | Windows: | Mac: | Linux: | Browser | Syntax: | Autocompletion: | Snippets: | Tooltips: |
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Ace | Download files | Issue tracker | No | requires a browser | Yes | LL viewer theme not included | Yes | No | |||
AtomEditor | No | Yes | Atom is built upon Chrome | Yes | No | ||||||
ConTEXT | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||||
Emacs | No | Yes | No | Work in progress | No | included for YASnippet | No | ||||
gedit | No | Yes | for GNOME | No | Yes | No | |||||
GeSHi - wikimedia extension | No | requires a browser | Yes | No | |||||||
Highlight.js | No | requires a browser | Yes | No | |||||||
jEdit | No | requires JavaVM | No | LL viewer theme not included | Yes | No | |||||
Kate | No | via KDE for Windows | via KDE for Mac | Yes | No | Yes | No | ||||
Nano | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | |||||
Notepad++ | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | included for FingerText | No | ||||
Pygments | No | requires a browser | Yes | No | |||||||
SubEthaEdit | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | |||||
Sublime Text ST 2 stable, ST 2 dev, ST 3 stable, ST 3 dev | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||
Textastic | Yes | No | Supports Mac OS and iOS versions of Textastic | No | Yes | No | |||||
TextExpander and TextExpander touch | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ||||
UltraEdit | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | ||||||
Vim | No | Yes | No | LL viewer theme not included | Yes | included for Snipmate and Ultisnips | No | ||||
Visual Studio Code | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Con Wylie's LSL program is multi-platform on Windows, Linux and Mac. The generator, editor and compiler have been built from the ground up to give the user ease of use.
LslPre is a full featured LSL script editor, preprocessor and optimiser for windows.
LSL Editor Community Edition for Windows is a standalone LSL script editor, compiler and debugger. Binary and Source as of 2013-03-14.
Its compiler and debugger are already now reasonably accurate. Please blog any LSL-Editor bugs you find into such places as our LSL-Editor Bugs article or via the project's SourceForge bug tracker located at: Bug Tracker.
Development of LSL-Editor was originally done by Alphons van der Heijden at http://www.lsleditor.org/.
For Windows, Mac, and Linux, the LSL Plus Eclipse plugin is a Editor/Unit Test environment for LSL implemented in Eclipse. It is a FLOSS project (Free/Libre Open Source Software). The latest release (0.13.0 - 2010-01-06) features multi-script execution with source level debugging (setting breakpoints, single stepping through code, examining variables on the call stack, etc.), making it unique among LSL IDEs. It now supports both multi-script execution in a simulated environment (with avatars, prims, inventory, (limited) physics, etc.) and unit testing - allowing you to test individual handlers and functions by precisely controlling the setup/teardown and interaction with the execution environment (including support for 'mocking' the LL function call that interact with the script environment). It also has some additional code management features that encourage code re-use without having to cut-and-paste, as well as code optimization (inlining, constant folding).
By using the Eclipse IDE you get features such as integration with source code control systems like CVS or Subversion, task management, integration with 3rd party bug tracking software, and so on. It supports development on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.
LSLForge EclipseFor Windows/Linux/OS X, LSLForge is a derivative of LSL-Plus, forked in September 2011. LSLForge aims to further advance and mature the LSL-Plus project and support the Eclipse LSL developer community.
This project is most recently maintained here. Some information also remains at the original google code repository.
MiceOnABeam is a visual programming tool that generates LSL scripts for SL. You choose among graphical modelling components to specify the program flow of your script in terms of states and the events that transition between the states. You can then use the built-in LSL Action Wizard or insert your own LSL code to specify what happens when an event occurs. The program then generates the LSL code for the model to form a complete script for the SL environment. Check out the demo video here or on YouTube. A Free version can be downloaded from here.
A build system for LSL scripts is described here. Sources are available from here.
Ratany Resident 09:38, 13 January 2014 (PST)
You can build a syntax checker yourself and hook it into whatever editor you fancy if you have the viewer source installed and compiled on your machine. The C++ source to build one yourself is here (JB Kraft).
Based on Eclipse, the ByronStar SL IDE includes most modern program editor features. It also includes custom features for LSL, such as variable checking, error markers, and code formatting. Eclipse is available for Macintosh, Linux, Windows, and many UNIX flavors.
There is an Emacs LSL Mode available on this wiki, which provides syntax highlighting and indentation features. For tips on writing LSL in emacs, read Xah Lee's page. Emacs is available for many Unix flavors, Macintosh and Windows.
You may come across (and attempt to use) Gary Evan's LSL major mode. It won't work with the Linden Scripting Language, as Gary wrote it for the Larch Shared Language.
vim: vi improved. A multi-platform evolution of the most classical of the editors: vi. GPL code.
Plugins for VIM for install the syntax, autocompletion, autoident for LSL script into vim
Joe's Own Editor (a.k.a. Joe) is a comand line editor for unixoid systems. See User:Zai Lynch/LSL highlighting in Joe for a manual and syntax file download.
Easy to use, features syntax highlighting, folding, auto complete, help that opens the appropriate wiki page, and is setup to use the c preprocessor, and lslint.
Windows only [1]
Files for Linux or Windows Forum threadscite_lsl.tar.gz
Developed in Java, this mature, cross-platform editor runs on any operating system with a Java 2 version 1.3 or higher virtual machine. It has all the features you'd expect from a full-GUI text editor. Syntax highlighting and tailored editing behavior is supported through 'modes.' (You can get the LSL 'modes' file here .) The editor supports a rich plug-in API; many third-party plug-ins exist to facility editing, formatting, communications, etc.
You can find jEdit here.
The Shill project . Very outdated
GNU Midnight Commander (mc) is a free cross-platform orthodox file manager and a clone of Norton Commander.
Midnight Commander is a console application with a text user interface.
OS: Unix-like, Microsoft Windows
For Linux see User:Kuraiko_Yoshikawa/sandbox/LSL_Goodies/mc for a manual and syntax file download.
Very outdatedUltraEdit-32/UEStudio is a powerful text, HTML, and HEX editor. This is a commercial editor with a 30 day trial version available at the website. Important features:
OS: Linux, Mac and Windows.
The following syntax files are available for UltraEdit
Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance. Key Bindings, Menus, Snippets, Macros, Completions and more - just about everything in Sublime Text is customizable with simple JSON files. This system gives you flexibility as settings can be specified on a per-file type and per-project basis. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.
Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux.
Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. There is no enforced time limit for the evaluation. Minecraft game purchase.
The following syntax highlighting files are available for Sublime Text.
What you will get via Package Control is the following. Simply go 'Package Control: Install Package' and search for 'LSL'.
(including not only syntax highlighting, but also smooth LSL functions/events/constants completions, lslint as build system, and inworld editor look-and-feel theme)
The e Editor is a port of TextMate to Windows, and can use the TextMate LSL bundle listed below.
Notepad++ is probably one of the best Windows editor around. Packed with features, extremely powerful and easy to use for beginners too. Best of all, it is GPL code.
Shan Bright's Notepad++ LSL syntax file 'BrightLSL' is at the Bright Corporation website: BrightLSL (Updated December 10, 2010)
Nexii Malthus's Notepad++ LSL syntax file, includes latest functions and constants [2] (3rd December, 2011)
WhiteStar Magic's Notepad++ LSL syntax file is being updated regularly, and is available on Github: NotePad---userdef (Last Update: May.03.2012)
Gwen Setzer's Notepad++ (6.3 and above) LSL Syntax Files: (Generated from Firestorm 4.4.0)Language description: lslLanguage.xml (Language->Define your Language->Import)Autocompletion support: lsl.xml (Copy the file lsl.xml in the API plugin directory of Notepad++. ex: C:Program FilesNotepad++pluginsAPIs, I also recommend enabling Settings->Preferences->Autocompletion->Function parameters hint on input)
Dari's Better Highlighting for Notepad++ (6.3 and above): LSL.XML (updated 11/22/2013) Darien Caldwell 12:11, 9 July 2013 (PDT)
Hint: to ensure code folding works properly, change line endings to Windows style if they are not already set as such. (Edit / EOL conversion / Windows format)
ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed mainly to serve as secondary tool for software developers.
The following syntax files are available for ConTEXT. https://otqbzy.over-blog.com/2021/02/my-pc-specs-test.html.
Crimson Editor is a professional source code editor for Windows.The following syntax files are available for Crimson Editor.
LSL-Editor is the frequently updated version of the LSL Editor with editing, compiling, and debugging abilities.When the path to the editor is added to the viewer's Debug Setting: ExternalEditor one can have a nice round trip external editor. See the LSL-Editor entry just above, or see above in the Integrated section, or the wiki page LSL-Editor for more information.
TextPad is a powerful, but easy to use general purpose text editor. It is a commercial product, but there is a 30 day trial version available for free on the website.
The following syntax files are available for TextPad.
EditPad Pro is a text editor with many great features for programming. https://downsfile509.weebly.com/animal-kingdom-online-game.html. It is a commercial program, with a demo version available. There is also a Lite version, but that has no syntax-highlighting support.
There is an LSL syntax file available for download from inside the program. However, it is from October 2006 so some new features may not be available.
LSLCCEditor is an open-source LSL editor for Windows with autocomplete, off world syntax checking, common code analysis warnings, and code formatting. It was built as part of an improved OpenSim compiler project, and is also able to compile LSL into OpenSim compatible C# code. The editor is released along side a cross platform C# library (LibLSLCC), which implements a reusable LSL compiler frontend and OpenSim compatible transpiler.
Library Data (highlighting data) is provided for both Linden LSL, and OpenSim LSL + OpenSim LSL extensions. The dialect of LSL is configurable via the editor menu. Some editor usage information is provided on the project's Wiki.
TextMate is a commercial text/program editor from Macromates (30 day trial available). You can find details about Piero Padar's well-maintained LSL bundle in the Scripting Tips forum archive.
This a great text editor with extensible language support. It also happens to be an incredible collaborative editor. Info at: http://www.subethaedit.net/
There is a contributed LSL mode by Zarf Vantongerloo. The mode is a little out of date and could use some love. But in general works great, doing syntax hilighting of LSL funcitons and adding a pop-up menu of all functions, states and event handlers to the top of the window.
An updated LSL mode by Mark Lentczner is available now from the SubEthaEditor User contributed modes Repository.
An updated (but still out of date) version of Mark Lentczner's mode is available on Solo Mornington's Github: https://github.com/SoloMornington/LSL_mode Note that this mode was developed for Coda 1.
Coda is 'one-window web development,' but it's a very pleasing text editor for a wide variety of uses. You can set up 'sites' which are web sites, but can represent any remote filesystem, which is echoed locally through ftp and/or subversion.
Coda can use SubEthaEdit syntax coloring 'modes,' so LSL is supported. Also available is a plug-in editor which lets you run arbitrary scripts on the selection or document.
You can get an LSL language plugin for all versions of BBEdit and TextWrangler at Erik Scholtz' Blog
For older versions of BBEdit (7.0 or less) and TextWrangler (1.0 only), there is a module available at http://adammarker.org/bbedit
Kate is an advanced text editor for KDE. Usually included in all KDE based distributions.
A Kate LSL Mode is available on this wiki.
Gedit is an advanced text editor for GNOME.
See User:Kuraiko_Yoshikawa/sandbox/LSL_Goodies/gedit for a manual, syntax file and Color Theme download.
Nano is a curses-based text editor for Unix and Unix-like systems.
Nano has been an official part of the GNU Project since February 2001.
See User:Kuraiko_Yoshikawa/sandbox/LSL_Goodies/nano for a manual and syntax file download.
Based on the vi editor common to Unix-like systems, Vim is designed for use both from a command line interface and as a standalone application in a graphical user interface.
Vim comes standard with LSL highlighting support.
Name | Integrated development environment | Windows | Mac OS | Linux | Code Completion | Highlighting | Actively Maintained |
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Con-Wylies-Script-Generator | Yes | Yes | No since 2.x | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
LSL-Plus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ||
LSLForge | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ||
LSL Editor Community Edition | Yes | Yes | No | Custom Vars and Functions also | Yes | Yes | |
LslPre | Yes | Windows (.NET) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
MiceOnABeam Visual Scripting Tool | Yes | Windows (.NET) | No | Custom Vars and Functions also | Yes | Yes | |
LSLCCEditor | Yes | Windows (.NET) | No | Custom Vars and Functions also | Yes | Yes |