


The commercial version also adds code browsing, a database explorer, collaboration, support for many popular source code control systems, and more. Komodo IDE has features found in an integrated development environment (IDE), such as integrated debugger support, Document Object Model (DOM) viewer, interactive shells, source code control integration, and the ability to select the engine used to run regular expressions, to ensure compatibility with the final deployment target. Available extensions include a functions list, pipe features, additional language support and user interface enhancements. Komodo plug-ins are based on Mozilla Add-ons and extensions can be searched for, downloaded, configured, installed and updated from within the application.

The editor component is implemented using the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface ( NPAPI), with the Scintilla view embedded in the XML User Interface Language ( XUL) interface in the same manner as a web browser plugin.īoth Komodo Edit and IDE support user customizing via plug-ins and macros.

Open Komodo uses Mozilla and Scintilla code base to provide its features, including support for many popular languages (including Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Tcl, SQL, Smarty, CSS, HTML, and XML), across all common operating systems ( Linux, OS X, and Windows). Many of Komodo's features are derived from an embedded Python interpreter. It is an announced initiative from ActiveState to create an open source development environment that promotes open standards on the web. The code was to be available between late October or early November 2007, with Open Komodo code repository created by ActiveState in August 2007. It is a subset version of Komodo Edit, with initial goal of Web development. announced Komodo Edit 4.3 to be open-sourced software, licensed under Mozilla Public License (MPL), GNU General Public License (GPL), and GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL). Komodo Edit 4.0 was originally a freeware version of Komodo IDE 4.0, released in. Komodo IDE is no longer supported and maintained by developers for Python. As of version 4.3, Komodo Edit is built atop the Open Komodo project. It was introduced in January 2007 to complement ActiveState's commercial Komodo IDE. Komodo Edit is a free and open source text editor for dynamic programming languages.
