Groovy Editor

The Groovy editor included in EditRocket includes tools to make Groovy programming and source code creation easier. Listed below is information on the Groovy specific tools offered by EditRocket. See the General Highlights section at the bottom of the page for more of what EditRocket has to offer.

Groovy Method Navigator

The Groovy Method Navigator tool parses the editor contents for Groovy methods or functions and displays them in a clickable list. Clicking an option from the list takes the user directly to the point in the editor where the method is defined.

Groovy Method Selector

Using the method selector keyboard shortcut, users can quickly bring up a clickable list of all methods in the editor. Selecting the method from the list takes the user directly to the point in the file of the method.

Groovy Code Inserts

EditRocket provides code inserts for various programming languages including Groovy. The inserts option provides a set of default inserts else, for, if, and while loop statements. Additional code inserts can be added by the user.

Groovy Syntax Highlighting

EditRocket provides Groovy specific syntax highlighting. Colors and styles can be customized via the preferences window.

General Highlights

Source Code Editor Source Code Editor   Coding Tools Coding Tools
  Macros, coding inserts, plugins, syntax highlighting, and more.     Sidekicks, code builders, function navigators, program execution, and more.
Web Development Tools Web Development Tools   Validators Validators
  CSS style builder, HTML tag builder, tag navigators, and much more.     XML, HTML, and CSS validators
Search Tools Search Tools   Auto Completion and Lookup Auto Completion and Lookup
  Regular expression capable find and replace, find / replace in files across the entire file system and more.     Auto code completion, tag completion, and lookup for many programming languages.
File System Browser File System Browser   File Compare File Compare
  Browse files and directories, perform file operations, and more.     Compares files similar to the Unix diff command.
FTP SFTP Client FTP and SFTP Client      
  Connect to SFTP and FTP servers. Browse, upload, download, rename, and delete files and directories and much more.      

Additional Features

  • Syntax highlighting for over 20 programming languages
  • Coding Sidekicks for C, C++, C#, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Shell Script, SQL, SQL PL, Transact-SQL, and XML
  • Code Builders for C, JavaScript, Java, Perl, PL/SQL, PHP, Python, Ruby, Shell Script, and Transact-SQL
  • A robust CSS Style Builder for creating CSS style sheets and an HTML Tag Builder, HTML Tidy Tool, and HTML Entity Selector
  • The programming editor behind RazorSQL, a popular database query tool, since 2004
  • Function / Method Navigators for displaying clickable lists of functions / methods contained in the editor
  • Function / Method Lookup for quickly inserting functions or methods
  • A Tag Navigator tool for displaying clickable lists of tags contained in the editor
  • Key Ahead customizable by language for quickly entering text
  • Bookmark functionality for quickly navigating through code.
  • Recordable Macros for executing common tasks
  • Code Inserts for over 19 languages for quickly inserting code
  • File tools such as head, tail, regular expression search, move, copy, and delete
  • Customizable and pre-defined code templates
  • Spell Checker
  • Works with all major operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X, macOS, Linux, and Solaris.