2015-12-18 Update

SciTE is a nice text editor but I frequently found myself needing just a little more functionality. Also, looking at the resources (memory) SciTE took I began to wonder if there was something better suited for me. My search led me to Geany which gave me a lot more functionality and (generally) was lighter on resources! I am leaving this post up for archival purposes; however, Geany is now my text editor (and IDE) of choice (see my Geany Settings post for more details).

Background

The customization I make to SciTE settings.

Details

• Reuse Single Instance (open new files in same SciTE instance):
  • check.if.already.open=1
• Set window open position and size:
  • position.left=20
  • position.top=615
  • position.width=730
  • position.height=435
• Trim down the left margin area
  • margin.width=6
• Set default file extension to .txt
  • default.file.ext=.txt
• Add .txt and .sh to source default extensions
  • source.default.extensions=.h|.cxx|.bat|.txt|.sh
• Show full file path in titlebar
  • title.full.path=1
    *Add more buffers (how many tabs you can open in SciTE)
  • buffers=20
• Trim tab size back to 4 as 8 is too much for me
  • tabsize=4
  • indent.size=4
• Turn off automatic indent (it annoys me)
  • indent.automatic=0
• Set Open File dialog to start in directory of current file
  • open.dialog.in.file.directory=1
• Change Open File Filter to ‘All Files’ instead of ‘All Source’
  • Find the open.filter setting (which is an array), move the ‘$(all.files)' entry to the first item in the array (above the ‘All Source|$(source.files)|' entry)

There are many more options which can be set and more description to each of the above provided on Scite’s Online Manual.

Notes

• Please see attached SciTEGlobal.properties file just in case I missed some items.

Links

• SCiTE