QScintilla2 and PyQT4

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QScintilla is a QT library that adds few widgets - text editor widgets with code highlighting, code autocompletion etc. For PyQT4 we can use a Qscintilla2 snapshot. Download and untar the sources, then go to Qt4 folder in a terminal en execute (linux/unix, as root or sudo):

qmake qscintilla.pro
make
make install

Then go to Python folder and execute:

python configure.py
make
make install

Then go to designer-Qt4 and execute:

qmake designer.pro
make
make install

And we are done. Qscintilla2 should now be available, use this code to test:

import PyQt4.Qsci
langs = [i for i in dir(PyQt4.Qsci) if i.startswith('QsciLexer')]

for i,l in enumerate(langs):
    print i,l[9:]

The result should be like this:

0
1 Bash
2 Batch
3 CMake
4 CPP
5 CSS
6 CSharp
7 D
8 Diff
9 HTML
10 IDL
11 Java
12 JavaScript
13 Lua
14 Makefile
15 POV
16 Perl
17 Properties
18 Python
19 Ruby
20 SQL
21 TeX
22 VHDL