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SlickEdit

Developer:	SlickEdit, Inc.
Latest release:	11 /
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	source code editor and IDE
License:	proprietary
Website:	www.slickedit.com

SlickEdit is a source code editor and integrated development environment (IDE) by SlickEdit, Inc. SlickEdit provides syntax highlighting, code navigation and a customizable keyboard shortcuts. The latest version, 11, also supports code templates.

1 History
2 Supported languages
3 Operating systems
4 Support
5 Criticisms
6 Related products
7 References
8 External links

[edit] History

SlickEdit started as a feature-rich source code editor. It boasted syntax highlighting, extensive customization ability via macros and could emulate the key bindings (keyboard shortcuts) of many mainstream text editors. From version to version it has been augmented with more features. Now it is a full IDE that can federate with many mainstream compilers and source code management systems. And, of course, it can host integrated debugging sessions.

[edit] Supported languages

SlickEdit supports a wide variety of programming languages, including^[1]:

It also supports some other languages for syntax highlighting alone. One of SlickEdit's strongest features is the ability to customize it to allow it to recognize any language not natively supported. This is done using SlickEdit's proprietary script language, Slick-C.

[edit] Operating systems

SlickEdit runs on a number of operating systems, including^[2]:

Microsoft Windows
Linux
Mac OS X (using X11)
Various distributions of Unix

[edit] Support

In addition to direct support for customers, SlickEdit also hosts a web forum where users can help one another.^[3]

[edit] Criticisms

According to some, SlickEdit suffers from an overabundance of features. In a review of version 11 of SlickEdit, Tom Plunket wrote:

SlickEdit ends up being a very complex piece of software. Some of its most promising features are hard to use, and configuring the program to work to any one developer's tastes can be tedious... its power can only be harnessed by people who are ready to spend considerable time learning how to truly use it.^[4]

[edit] Related products

SlickEdit also two related packages which integrate into existing IDEs:

SlickEdit Plug-In: Integrates the SlickEdit editor for use in the Eclipse IDE^[5]
SlickEdit Tools: Integrates additional tools and utilities into Microsoft's Visual Studio ^[6]