Chapter 15. Editor Support

Table of Contents

Scintilla Text Editor
KDE Support

Editing quickbook files is usually done with text editors both simple and powerful. The following sections list the settings for some editors which can help make editing quickbook files a bit easier.

	Note
	You may submit your settings, tips, and suggestions to the authors, or through the docs Boost Docs mailing list.

Scintilla Text Editor

Section contributed by Dean Michael Berris

The Scintilla Text Editor (SciTE) is a free source code editor for Win32 and X. It uses the SCIntilla source code editing component.

	Tip
	SciTE can be downloaded from http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

You can use the following settings to highlight quickbook tags when editing quickbook files.

qbk=*.qbk
lexer.*.qbk=props
use.tabs.$(qbk)=0
tab.size.$(qbk)=4
indent.size.$(qbk)=4
style.props.32=$(font.base)
comment.stream.start.props=[/
comment.stream.end.props=]
comment.box.start.props=[/
comment.box.middle.props=
comment.box.end.props=]

	Note
	Thanks to Rene Rivera for the above SciTE settings.