CodeLite is a powerful open-source, cross platform code editor for the C/C++ programming languages (regulary tested on Windows XP sp2, (K)Ubuntu 7.10 / 8.04, Fedora Core 6, Debian lenny/sid and Mac OSX 10.5.2).

CodeLite uses a sophisticated, yet intuitive interface which allows user to easy create and build complex projects.

Features:

• Generic support for compilers


• Can be easily extended with plugins (Several plugins are already included in the installer)


• Built-in GDB support, with the following features included:
  
  
  
  • Watches table - add persistent watches by a single click
  
  
  • Quick Watch - right click on a variable to expand it
  
  
  • Locals tree - automatically displays the current stack variables (also displays *this if available)
  
  
  • Threads view - provides list of currently running threads and easily switching between then by single click
  
  
  • Breakpoint management - add/remove breakpoint management panel
  
  
  • Automatic tooltip
  
  
  
  


• Subversion plugin (based on the command line tool), which mimics the TortoiseSVN (but unlike it, it runs on Linux as well)


• Makefile based build system


• Project explorer (Workspace view)


• File Explorer


• Automatically imports MSVS workspace/projects and converts them to GNU based makefile


• Active document outline


• Sophisticated database based Code Completion mechanism, a default database is supplied which contains symbols for wxWidgets, STL and standard headers
  
  
  
  • Function's call tip
  
  
  • Hover tip
  
  
  • Comments tips
  
  
  • Members List
  
  
  • Supports C++ templates, namespaces and other advance features of the language
  
  
  • Automatically add include statement for symbols
  
  
  
  


• Quickly open resources in the editor using 'Find Resource in workspace'


• Quickly open types in the editor using 'Find Type in workspace'


• XML based syntax highlighting, comes with the following:
  
  
  
  • C/C++
  
  
  • Java
  
  
  • Perl
  
  
  • XML
  
  
  • Makefile
  
  
  • Lua
  
  
  • Diff files
  
  
  • PHP
  
  
  • JavaScript
  
  
  • Python
  
  
  • HTML
  
  
  • ASP
  
  
  
  


• Text Folding


• Bookmarks


• Find In Files


• Replace In Files


• Highly Configurable


• Built-in doxygen comment generator for functions/classes