LSL Alternate Editors

2013-04-26T21:12:44Z

Erwin Solo: I corrected the date for the "latest update" to LSL Editor. Previously, the wiki said "04-29-2010", and I changed it to say "2013-03-14". A very minor edit.

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There are several off-world editors available for free or 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.

=== Online LSL Generators ===
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:
*[http://conwylie.co.uk/ScriptGenerator/ Con Wylie's LSL Script Generator]

== Syntax Highlighting Files ==
These projects may have more current LSL highlighting files:
*[http://adammarker.org/shill Shill project]
*[http://hilitelsl.googlecode.com HiLiteLSL.GoogleCode.com]

==LSL Integrated Development Environments (coding and testing environments) ==

===[[Con-Wylies-Script-Generator]]===

*[http://conwylie.co.uk/ScriptGenerator/ Con Wylie's LSL Script Generator] has been ported from a website into a free downloadable program, anyone can use the program as it is very easy to use.

Con Wylie's LSL program is multi-platform on Windows, Linux and Mac. The generator, editor and compiler has been build from the ground up to give the user ease of use.

===[[LslPre]]===
* [http://lsl.dreamjammers.net http://lsl.dreamjammers.net]
LslPre is a full featured LSL script editor, preprocessor and optimiser for windows.

===[[LSL Editor Community Edition]]===

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 [[LSLEditorBugs|LSL-Editor Bugs]] article or via the project's SourceForge bug tracker located at: [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=319248 Bug Tracker].

* Alphons van der Heijden, author of LSLEditor, the great off-line editor and debugging tool for scripting in Second Life, has donated his opus magnum to the free and open source community where it can grow and keep pace with the SL platform!.

*Details, executable and source can be found at [http://sourceforge.net/projects/lsleditor/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/lsleditor/]

Development of LSL-Editor was originally done by Alphons van der Heijden at [http://www.lsleditor.org/ http://www.lsleditor.org/].

=== [[LSL-Plus]] ===

[http://lslplus.sourceforge.net/ LSL PLus Eclipse Plugin]

'''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.
* Missing bracket matching and certain highlighting features.

=== [[LSLForge]] ===

[http://code.google.com/p/lslforge/ LSLForge Eclipse]
'''For 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.

=== [[MiceOnABeam Visual Scripting Tool]] [{{HoverText|''C''|Commercial Software}}]===

* [http://www.miceonabeam.com/ MiceOnABeam Visual Scripting Tool]
MiceOnABeam is a visual programming tool that generates LSL scripts for SL. You choose among graphical modeling 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 '''[http://bit.ly/ihCqyf here]''' or on '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBA8wvoA9EI YouTube]'''. A Free version can be downloaded from '''[http://www.miceonabeam.com here]'''.

==Off-world syntax checker==
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 [[User:JB_Kraft#Offline_LSL_Syntax_Checker|here (JB Kraft)]].

==Multi-platform Editors==

===ByronStar SL===
Based on [http://eclipse.org Eclipse], the [http://byronstar-sl.sourceforge.net/ 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.
* No longer maintained.

===Emacs===
There's an [[Emacs LSL Mode]] available on this wiki, which provides syntax highlighting and indentation features. If you want some tips on writing LSL in emacs, read [http://xahlee.org/sl/ls-emacs.html 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 [http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~leavens/emacs/lsl-mode.el LSL major mode]. It won't work with the Linden Scripting Language, as Gary wrote it for the [http://www.cs.iastate.edu/larch-faq-webboy.html Larch Shared Language].

===vim===
[http://www.vim.org/ vim:] vi improved. A multi-platform evolution of the most classical of the editors: vi. GPL code.
 [http://www.secondlifelab.it/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=77&func=select&id=7 Plugins for VIM] for install the syntax, autocompletion, autoident for LSL script into vim

===JOE===
[http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/ 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.

===SciTE===
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 [http://sdfjkl.org/pages/SciTE-ez SciTE-ez] 

Files for Linux or Windows [http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=209219 Forum thread] [http://dimension128.homelinux.net/scite_lsl.tar.gz scite_lsl.tar.gz]

===jEdit===
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 [https://gist.github.com/GitSkunk/5327522 here] {{WFont|fstyle=italic|color=orange|text=updated 18-Apr-13}}.) The editor supports a rich plug-in API; many third-party plug-ins exist to facility editing, formatting, communications, etc. 
You can find jEdit [http://www.jedit.org/ here].

===Shill - LSL syntax files for a variety of editors===
The [http://adammarker.org/shill Shill project] provides up-to-date syntax files for many LSL editors. You might find files there that are more current than those here on the wiki. Last update: 19Aug09 for Second Life 1.23.4. New in this release: lslint

===Midnight Commander===
[http://www.midnight-commander.org/ 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.

===UltraEdit-32/UEStudio [{{HoverText|''C''|Commercial Software}}]===
[http://www.ultraedit.com/ UltraEdit-32/UEStudio] is a powerful text, HTML, and HEX editor. It is a commercial editor with a 30 day trial version available at the website. Important features:
* column/block mode editing
* brackets/braces matching
* code-folding
* configurable syntax highlighting via custom [http://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=40#wordfiles wordfiles]
* autocomplete (using keywords defined in the wordfile)
* bookmarks, incremental searching, CTAG support
* automatic conversion between Unix/Dos/MAC/UTF-8, etc
* built-in FTP/SFTP client

OS: Linux, Mac and Windows.

The following syntax files are available for UltraEdit
* [[User:Lum Pfohl/LSL Syntax Highlighting For UltraEdit]] Last updated November 28th, 2007.
*[[User:Kireji_Haiku/Ultraedit_Syntax_Highlight|Ultraedit Syntax Highlighting]] (2012-11-03 updated)

===Sublime Text [{{HoverText|''C''|Commercial Software}}]===
[http://www.sublimetext.com/ 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 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.

The following syntax highlighting files are available for Sublime Text.
* [https://github.com/JKolya/sublime-text-2-lsl Sublime Text 2 LSL Syntex] Last updated October 28, 2012.

Alternate LSL language bundle for (as of) Second Live Server 13.04.19.274352 is here. (including not only syntax highlighting, but also smooth LSL functions/events/constants completions and inworld editor look-and-feel theme)
* [https://github.com/Makopo/sublime-text-lsl LSL Bundle for Sublime Text 2] Last updated April 26, 2013.

Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux.

==Windows Editors==

===e===
The [http://www.e-texteditor.com/ e Editor] is a port of TextMate to Windows, and can use the TextMate LSL bundle listed below.
===Notepad++===
[http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm 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: [http://www.brightcorporation.net/brightlsl BrightLSL] (Updated December 10, 2010)

Nexii Malthus's Notepad++ LSL syntax file, includes latest functions and constants [http://c438644.r44.cf2.rackcdn.com/userDefineLang.xml] (3rd December, 2011)

WhiteStar Magic's Notepad++ LSL syntax file is being updated regularly, and is available on Github: [https://github.com/WhiteStar-Magic/NotePad---userdef/archives/master NotePad---userdef] (Last Update: May.03.2012)

[[User:Kireji_Haiku|Kireji Haiku]]'s Notepad++ LSL syntax file: [[User:Kireji_Haiku/Notepad++_Syntax_Highlight]] - updated last 2012-11-27

===ConTEXT===
[http://www.context.cx/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ 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.
* [http://blogic14.blogspot.com/ Last Activity] July 2012
* [http://archive.is/Wm3B Last Announcement by developer of ConTEXT] Friday, 07 September 2007
* [http://www.contexteditor.org/ Site and Newsletter Sign Up - '''DOWNLOAD'''] September 2007
* [http://forum.context.cx/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1775.0;id=359 Shyan Graves] Last updated March 01, 2007.
* [http://adammarker.org/shill/context/lsl.chl Sir.Grelling] Last updated July 10, 2006.

===Crimson Editor===
[http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Crimson Editor] is a professional source code editor for Windows.
The following syntax files are available for Crimson Editor.

* Aakanaar - Last updated September 10, 2006 for Second Life version 1.10.0.
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/emeraldeditor/files/crimsoneditor/ Emerald Editor] '''2011''' Open Source version of Crimson Editor

===[[LSL-Editor]]===

* [http://www.lsleditor.org/ http://www.lsleditor.org/]

[[LSL-Editor]] is a standalone Windows LSL '''editor, compiler and debugger'''.
All the usual editing, plus you can compile and execute.
* This project is no longer maintained at LSLEditor.org. See below.

===LSL Editor Community Addition===

* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/lsleditor/ Source Forge: LSL 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, above in the Integrated section, and the wiki page [[LSL-Editor]] for more information.

===TextPad [{{HoverText|''C''|Commercial Software}}]===
[http://www.textpad.com/products/textpad/index.html 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.
* [[LSL_Editor_TextPad_ClipBook_Events | Events ClipBook]] Last updated March 5, 2007. Based on the LSL Portal event entries.
* [[LSL_Editor_TextPad_Syntax | Prodigal Maeterlinck & Patrick2 Chama]] Last updated February 20, 2007. Extracted from the Second Life viewer source code.
* [http://www.textpad.com/add-ons/files/syntax/lsl_.zip Ben Gray] Last updated August 23, 2006. As of version 1.12.0, with the deprecated functions in a separate keyword list.
* [http://www.textpad.com/add-ons/files/syntax/lsl.zip Matthias Huber] Last updated September 23, 2004.

===EditPad Pro [{{HoverText|''C''|Commercial Software}}]===
[http://www.editpadpro.com/ EditPad Pro] is a text editor with many great features for programming. 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.

==Macintosh Editors==
===TextMate [{{HoverText|''C''|Commercial Software}}]===

TextMate is a commercial text/program editor from [http://macromates.com/ Macromates] (30 day trial available). You can find details about Piero Padar's well-maintained LSL bundle in the [http://forums-archive.secondlife.com/54/ae/89389/1.html Scripting Tips forum archive].

===SubEthaEdit [{{HoverText|''C''|Commercial Software}}]===
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 [http://www.subethaedit.net/modes.html 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 [{{HoverText|''C''|Commercial Software}}]===

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.

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

===BBEdit and TextWrangler ===

You can get an LSL language plugin for all versions of BBEdit and TextWrangler at [http://blog.elitecoderz.net/lsl-linden-script-language-plugin-for-bbedit/2008/12/ 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 http://adammarker.org/bbedit]

==Linux Editors==
===Kate===
[http://kate-editor.org/ 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===
[http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/ 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===
Nano is a curses-based text editor for Unix and Unix-like systems. 
Since February 2001, nano is an official part of the GNU Project. 
See [[User:Kuraiko_Yoshikawa/sandbox/LSL_Goodies/nano]] for a manual and syntax file download.

== Features Table ==

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%; text-align: center; width: auto; border=1px;"
|-
! Name
! Integrated development environment
! Platforms
! Code Completion
! Highlighting
! Actively Maintained
|-
! [[LSL_Alternate_Editors#Con-Wylies-Script-Generator|Con-Wylies-Script-Generator]]
| {{yes}}
| Windows/Linux/Mac
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{Yes}}
|-
|-
! [[LSL_Alternate_Editors#LSL-Plus|LSL-Plus]]
| {{yes}}
| Multi-Platform
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|-
|-
! [[LSL_Alternate_Editors#LSLForge|LSLForge]]
| {{yes}}
| Windows/Linux/OS X
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{Yes}}
|-
|-
! [[LSL_Alternate_Editors#LSL Editor Community Edition|LSL Editor Community Edition]]
| {{yes}}
| Windows-Only
| {{yes | Custom Vars and Functions also}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
|-
! [[LSL_Alternate_Editors#LslPre|LslPre]]
| {{yes}}
| Windows(.Net)
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
|-
! [[LSL_Alternate_Editors#MiceOnABeam Visual Scripting Tool|MiceOnABeam Visual Scripting Tool]]
| {{yes}}
| Windows(.Net)
| {{yes | Custom Vars and Functions also}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
|}

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