Supported Languages and Environments

This section outlines the languages and file types supported by each SlickEdit® Core feature, as well as supported emulations.

Supported Languages and File Types

The table below indicates the languages and file types that support key SlickEdit® Core features. Features that are not language-specific, such as DIFFzilla®, are not listed here.

Language	Version	List Members Parameter Information	Auto List Compatible Parameters	Code Navigation	Syntax Expansion	Syntax Indent	SmartPaste®	Code Beautifier	Selective Dispaly	Expand/ Collapse Code Blocks
ActionScript	2.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ada	95	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ant	*	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
ANTLR	v2	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
AppleScript	*	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Assembly Language	Windows Nasm, Unix as	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
AWK	UNIX System V, nawk	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Bourne shell scripts	bash	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
C, C++	K&R C, ANSI-C, C90 and C99, ISO C++ 98	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
C#	1.0, 1.2, 2.0	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
C Shell	BSD, tcsh	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
CFScript	*	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Ch	*	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
CICS	2.x	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
COBOL	74, 85, 2002	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
D	1.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
DB2	*	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
DTD	ISO 8879:1986 SGML	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No
Erlang	*	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
F#	*	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Fortran	Fortran 77, Fortran 90	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
Haskell	*	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
High Level Assembler	*	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
HTML, CFML	HTML 4.0	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
IDL	OMG IDL	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
INI, config files	*	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
InstallScript	*	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
J#	2.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Java	5.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
JavaScript	ECMAScript ECMA-262 (1997)	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
JCL	*	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
JSP	*	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Lex	System V and BSD Unix	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Lua	*	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Makefile	Unix make, nmake, and gmake	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Modula-2	Wirth/PIM	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Objective C	*	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Pascal	ETH and Delphi	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Perl	Perl 5	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
PHP	5	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
PL/I	ANSI 1976	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
PL/SQL	*	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
PowerNP Assembler	*	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Progress 4GL	*	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
PV-WAVE	*	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Python	2.0, 3.0	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
REXX	ANSI X3.274 1996, Object Rexx	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Ruby	1.8	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
SAS	*	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Slick-C	*	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SystemVerilog	IEEE 2009	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Tcl	8	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Transact-SQL	*	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
VBScript	2.0	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Vera	*	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Verilog	2005	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Visual Basic	VBA, QBasic, VB 6.0	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
Visual Basic .NET™	9.0	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
VHDL	IEEE 1076, VHDL-2006	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Windows batch files	*	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Windows PowerShell	2.0	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
x86 Assembly	Nasm	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
XML, XSD	1.0, 1.1	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Yacc	System V and BSD Unix	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No

Versions for langauges marked with "*" indicate that best efforts are made to keep the language up to date but no specific version is supported.

Embedded Languages

SlickEdit® Core recognizes languages embedded in HTML, COBOL, Perl scripts, and UNIX shell scripts. When editing embedded languages, all language-sensitive features are supported, including Context Tagging®, SmartPaste®, Syntax Expansion, Syntax Indenting, and Color Coding. In fact, Context Tagging picks up embedded tags. For example, the Defs view displays function names if any exist. Embedded language colors are user-defined.

Embedded Languages in HTML

SlickEdit® Core supports any embedded language in HTML. However, Web browsers usually only support VBScript, JavaScript, and/or Java, while Web servers typically support VBScript, Java, or PHP. The following screen is an example of VBScript, JavaScript, and Java embedded in HTML:

Embedded Languages in Perl and Other Scripting Languages

To allow SlickEdit® Core to recognize embedded source in a Perl script or UNIX shell, prefix the HERE document terminator with the color coding lexer name. The following Perl example shows HTML embedded in a Perl script. Unknown languages are color-coded in string color.

Supported Editor Emulations

SlickEdit® Core provides keyboard emulations for the following editors:

BBEdit
Brief
CodeWarrior
CodeWright
CUA (SlickEdit Core's default)
Epsilon
GNU Emacs
ISPF
SlickEdit (Text Mode edition)
Vim
Visual C++ 6
Visual Studio default
Xcode
Eclipse

See Emulations for more information.