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SciTE

SciTE is a code editor, available on Linux: syntax highlighting and code completion.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

SciTE is a code editor, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing: syntax highlighting and code completion.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “www.scintilla.org is the home of the Scintilla editing component and SciTE text editor application.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Syntax highlighting” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Code completion” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “A free source code editor for Win32 and” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of SciTE is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (HPND) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. SciTE includes the following features: Syntax highlighting Run code in Terminal, C, C++, vala, go Code completion Code folding Many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal Exporting file to HTML, RTF, PDF, LATEX, XML

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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