Features

This library provides several classes.

• QPythonPlainTextEdit - actual code editor class. Extends QPlainTextEdit.
• QPythonPlainTextWidget - QWidget container that holds editor class and bottom info panel. This is a primary class for embedding editor into your application.
• QPythonPlainTextSettings - QWidget panel that displays commonly modifiable editor settings.
• QPythonPlainTextSettingsDialog - Immediately usable settings dialog if you wish to use default settings widget.

Below we outline features of the above classes .

QPythonPlainTextEdit

• Python syntax highlighting
• Line numbers column
• Color schemes: "Light", "Light [Bold]" and "Warm Neon"
• Common code editor key combinations:
  • Tab - indent block
  • Shift+Tab - unindent block
  • Ctrl+A - select all
  • Ctrl+X - cut line or selected block and save it into clipboard
  • Ctrl+C - copy line or selected block into clipboard
  • Ctrl+V - paste text from clipboard
  • Ctrl+Z - undo
  • Ctrl+R - redo
  • Ctrl+Y - delete current line or all lines in a block
  • Ctrl+G - goto line and optionally column
  • Ctrl+Shift+⬆ - move current line up
  • Ctrl+Shift+⬇ - move current line down
  • Ctrl+D - duplicate current line
  • Ctrl+/ - toggle commenting current line or a block
  • Ctrl+Shift+J - join current and next line
  • Selecting text and pressing ", ', [, (, { or backtick will wrap selected text into relevant characters.
  • Ctrl+F - search
    • Arrows ⬆ and ⬇ to go to previous and next matches.
    • Alt+C - to toggle case (in)sensitive search.
    • Ctrl+Enter - to close search and move focus to the editor

QPythonPlainTextSettings

These allow you to modify following settings.

• Color scheme
• If syntax highlighting is enabled or not
• Show line numbers column or not
• Number of spaces to be used instead of Tab
• Fixed font family and size