Eric is a full featured Python and Ruby editor and IDE, written in python. It is based on the cross platform Qt gui toolkit, integrating the highly flexible Scintilla editor control. It is designed to be usable as everdays quick and dirty editor as well as being usable as a professional project management tool integrating many advanced features Python offers the professional coder.

eric4 includes a plugin system, which allows easy extension of the IDE functionality with plugins downloadable from the net. Current stable versions are eric4 based on Qt4 and Python 2 and eric5 based on Python 3 and Qt4.
Its features include:

Unlimited number of editors
Configurable window layout
Configurable syntax hilighting
Sourcecode autocompletion
Sourcecode calltips
Sourcecode folding
Brace matching
Error highlighting
Advanced search functionality including project wide search and replace
Integrated class browser
Makro recordings
Integrated version control interface for Cvs and
Subversion repositories (as plugins)
Integrated sourcecode documentation system
Integrated python debugger including support to debug multithreaded applications
Integrated, full featured Ruby debugger
Integrated profiling and code coverage support
Integrated task (todo items) management
Advanced project management facilities
Interactive Python shell including syntax hilighting and autocompletion
Interactive Ruby shell including syntax hilighting and autocompletion
Integrated rope refactoring tool (as optional plugin)
Application diagrams
running external applications from within the IDE
integrated unittest support
Cyclops cycles finder support
Integrated CORBA support based on omniORB
Integrated interface to cx_freeze (as optional plugin)
Integrated interface to PyLint (as optional plugin)
Many integrated wizzards for regex and Qt dialogs (as plugins)
Localizations. Currently Eric is available in English, German, French, Russian, Czech, Spanish and Turkish.

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