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Editors

The new launcher introduced with Ren'Py 6.9.3 contains pluggable text editor support. This page contains information about the text editors for which we've created this support, along with downloads that help install and configure those editors.

To use this support, please download the appropriate file and unzip it into the directory containing Ren'Py.

jEdit

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jedit.jpg

This Java-based editor runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.


SciTE

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scite2.jpg

This small and fast text editor runs on Windows and Linux.


Geany

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Editor.Geany.png

This GTK+ editor runs on Linux and Windows.


Emacs

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editor.emacs.png

Emacs can be used as an editor for renpy by running it as a server and using the

emacsclient

command in the emacs.edit.py file.

To start the Emacs server, you can either invoke

M-x (server-start)

inside your current Emacs session or put

...
(server-start)
...

somewhere in your configuration script.

This is the emacs.edit.py file:

import renpy
import subprocess

class Editor(renpy.editor.Editor):
    
    def begin(self, new_window=False, **kwargs):
        self.arguments = ["emacsclient"]
        if new_window:
            self.arguments.append('-c')

    def open(self, filename, line=None, **kwargs):
        if line:
            self.arguments.append("+%d" % line)
        filename = renpy.exports.fsencode(filename)
        self.arguments.append(filename)


    def end(self, **kwargs):
        print self.arguments
        subprocess.Popen(self.arguments)

There is a renpy mode for emacs available here:

Copy into your Emacs load-path and add the line

(require 'Renpy)

to your configuration script.


gedit (GtkSourceView)

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Gedit.png

For editors based on GtkSourceView, this language file highlights rpy scripts.