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Eric

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 an everyday quick and dirty editor as well as being usable as a professional project management tool, integrating many advanced features that Python offers the professional coder. Eric includes a plug-in system, which allows easy extension of the IDE functionality with plug-ins downloadable from the net. Current stable versions are Eric4 based on Qt4 and Python 2 and Eric5 based on Python 3 and Qt4.

Tags	Software Development Debuggers User Interfaces Text Editors Integrated Development Environments (IDE) Python Ruby
Licenses	GPL GPLv3
Operating Systems	Linux GNU/Linux Windows Mac OS X
Implementation	Python Qt PyQt
Translations	Czech German Spanish French Italian Russian Turkish Chinese

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5.3.3

07 May 2013 13:47

Release Notes: Bugfixes.

4.5.11

07 May 2013 13:47

Release Notes: This release fixed a few bugs and introduced a configurable delay timer for smoother sidebar behavior, and made the line number margin adjust itself to the size needed (Editor, Mini Editor, Shell).

5.3.2

06 Apr 2013 10:07

Release Notes: Bugs were fixed.

4.5.10

06 Apr 2013 10:07

Release Notes: Support for the --fork-child and --fork-parent switches was added. More widgets are supported in the code creation dialog. The way that multi-line strings are shown in the value column of the variables viewer was changed. A few bugs were fixed.