LSL Alternate Editors

You are not limited to the in-world editor for editing your scripts; there are many editors available for free or purchase. Many of these editors have syntax highlighting for LSL that will make your code easier to follow. 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.

For some of the editors mentioned here, the Shill project may have more up-to-date syntax files.

Multi-platform Editors

ByronStar SL

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.

Emacs

You can find the LSL major mode, by Gary Evans, here. Emacs is also available for Macintosh and Windows.

There's also Emacs LSL Mode available on this wiki, which provides better syntax highlighting and indentation features.

vim

vim: vi improved. A multi-platform evolution of the most classical of the editors: vi. GPL code.

Windows Editors

Notepad++

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.

ConTEXT

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.

• Shyan Graves Last updated March 01, 2007.
• Sir.Grelling Last updated July 10, 2006.

Crimson Editor

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.

LSLeditor

• http://www.lsleditor.org/

LSL-Editor is a standalone Windows LSL script editor (and compiler), featuring:

• Code highlighting
• Code auto completion (Like Visual Studio)
• Code editing ( Copy / Cut / Paste / Undo / Clipboard function)
• Tooltip on every keyword (using LSL guide)
• Auto-indent (using tabs)
• F1 , turns up the www.LSLwiki.NET information on the keyword
• F5 , experimental compiling and execution (LSLscript -> C#)
• Printing
• You don't have to install (!) the program, unzip en use it.

Windows XP , Windows 2000 , Windows 2003

• .NET 2.x has to be installed
• Currently LSL-editor is a .NET 2.x version, but also an older .NET 1.x version can be downloaded.

SciTE

SciTE-ez

TextPad [C]

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.

• Prodigal Maeterlinck & Patrick2 Chama Last updated February 20, 2007. Extracted from the Second Life viewer source code.
• Ben Gray Last updated August 23, 2006. As of version 1.12.0, with the deprecated functions in a separate keyword list.
• Matthias Huber Last updated September 23, 2004.
• Events ClipBook Last updated March 5, 2007. Based on the LSL Portal event entries.

UltraEdit-32 [C]

UltraEdit-32 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 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

The following syntax files are available for UltraEdit.

• Podryck Sands Last updated April 12, 2007.
• Stryfe Lowell Last updated 2007-04-15. Based on the original LSL Wiki and updated based on release notes. Currently at LSL 1.14.1.2.

Macintosh Editors

TextMate [C]

You can find details about Piero Padar's well-maintained TextMate bundle in the Scripting Tips forum. TextMate is a commercial Mac OS X text/program editor from Macromates.

There is a 30 day trial version available on their website.

SubEthaEdit [C]

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.

Linux Editors

Kate is an advanced text editor for KDE. Usually included in all KDE based distributions. A Kate LSL Mode is available on this wiki.