Version 27 of Ctext

Documentation at http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/doc/ctext.html

Ctext is

part of tklib.
a megawidget that is built upon the Tk text widget. It provides syntax highlighting, and can be used to highlight a variety of languages. It provides a simple API and more radical changes (other than color) can be made by modifying the tag attributes. By default matching pairs of characters are flashed on the screen, like the popular Emacs and Lisp editors can do.
licensed like Tcl (BSDish), but copyrighted

 What: custom text widget
 Where: http://tcllib.sf.net/ (within the tklib module)
 Description: Fast syntax highlighting text megawidget.
        Provides a way to control the highlighting colors for classes
        of keywords.  Latest version has electric braces/quotes/brackets
        and a new edit modified instance command.
        Has been tested with Tcl/Tk 8.3.2 and 8.4b1.
 Updated: 05/2004
 Contact: tklib maintainers

RLH - I just looked at the docs (which I somehow missed before). What a great widget!

AK: The docs were actually added last week, so you could not find them before.

TR: A real-life example using ctext and BWidget for interactive debugging and introspection is here: a debugger with syntax highlighting using ctext

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