
Welcome to the Komodo User Guide
What's new in Komodo Edit
8.5
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Multiple Carets: In addition to Komodo's rectangular (column) editing, you can now add mutiple caret positions in the editor, so that any typing or editing commands will be reflected at all caret locations. Use Ctrl+Click (Cmd+Click on the Mac) to place additional carets, or alternatively use the editors right click contextual menu and select the 'Add as Additional Caret/Selection'.
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Button Menu: Komodo can now be configured to use a collapsed toolbar button menu, instead of a full menu bar (does not apply to Mac OS X). This can be useful when you want to maximize your vertical editing space. A bonus of this feature is that the last used menu items will also be displayed in the top-level of the button menu, making it quick and easy to run the same menu command again.
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Sleak Scrollbars: Komodo's side pane scrollbars now fade out when they are not in use. This creates more space for your panes, and the scrollbars will become more visible and less transparent once you start interacting with the pane.
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Performance: Various performance tweaks were made to Komodo 8.5 to improve the editing performance, as well as improving the search speed, syntax checking times and general responsiveness of Komodo.
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Breadcrumbs: A new file and directory navigation bar has been added to the Komodo window. This navigation bar allows you to easily find and open related files. You can use mouse and/or keyboard to navigate entries and easily filter down the list of files.
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Abyss theme: A new dark theme for the Komodo user interface has been added. This theme affects the Komodo UI elements outside of the main editor (i.e. different from Komodo color schemes which only affect the main editor colors). You can enable Abyss in the Komodo Appearance preferences.
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Open Files: The Open Files widget (in the left Komodo Pane) now includes additional sorting and grouping options. You can group by language, file extension, directory, location and even group by a custom regex pattern match.
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Code Intelligence Out-Of-Process: Komodo's code intelligence system (code scanning, calltips, completions, goto definition, refactoring, etc...) is now handled by an external process. Mostly you won't notice any changes in functionality, but this does boost Komodo's responsiveness whilst editing.
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Updated Platform: Komodo has received a number of updates to its underlying code base. Komodo now uses Mozilla 24, Python 2.7.5 and Scintilla 3.34.
(Read the full Release Notes.)
Downloads
You can use one of the following links to download Komodo:
- Komodo IDE download
- Komodo Edit download
Support and Community
The ActiveState Community site has resources to help you use Komodo effectively:
Sample Project
Get started fast with Komodo's Sample Project.
Feature Showcase
Quick Demos showing advanced search functionality, editing, debugging, and more.