Delphi: Free TSynEdit replacement

Question

What's the best free replacement for TSynEdit? As I can see, it is developed very slow. Want to find some replacement for it. Or, may be, the version from another maintainer.

Need Delphi 2010 compatibility.

Answer 1

SynEdit works fine under D2010. There's one notable bug involving the Enter key not working under certain conditions. A patch for it can be found about halfway down the page on this thread. Search for // GB: BUG FIXED

Aside from that, it should work. Are you having some specific issues with it?

Answer 2

You can try out Scintilla. As of version 2.x it supports "virtual space" (most important feature for me - after syntax highlighting) and has more features like CodeFolding, Annotations http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#Annotations, MultipleSelections, and many more. AFAIK there is no wrapper for Delphi that is up-to-date and works with Unicode/D2009+. I've created a project at http://code.google.com/p/dscintilla/ which should be in 'beta stage' in a week (or so).

Answer 3

I have never used SynEdit myself, but have always believed it to be the best free open-source advanced editor component for Delphi. Because it is open-source, you can yourself alter it to suit your needs.