Editing Source-code editor (section)

==History==
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In 1985, [[Mike Cowlishaw]] of [[IBM]] created [[LEXX (text editor)|LEXX]] while [[Secondment|seconded]] to the [[Oxford University Press]]. LEXX used live parsing and used color and fonts for syntax highlighting. IBM's LPEX (Live Parsing Extensible Editor)<ref name="LPEX User Guide">{{cite web |title=LPEX Editor's User Guide - Version 4 |url=https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/system/files/support/swg/swgdocs.nsf/0/b056dfda5f29d02a85256ab000109653/$FILE/lpex.pdf |website=IBM |access-date=19 June 2022}}</ref> was based on LEXX and ran on [[VM (operating system)|VM/CMS]], [[OS/2]], [[IBM i|OS/400]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], and [[Java virtual machine|Java]]<ref name="Cowlishaw Bio">{{citation
   |url=http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/cowlishaw.bio.html
   |title=Mike Cowlishaw FREng BSc CEng FIET FBCS CITP
   |publisher=IBM
   |accessdate=June 20, 2022
   |archive-url=https://archive.today/20061018092456/http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/cowlishaw.bio.html
   |archive-date=2006-10-18
   |url-status=dead
   }}</ref>

Although the initial public release of [[Vim (text editor)|vim]] was in 1991, the syntax highlighting feature was not introduced until version 5.0 in 1998.<ref>{{cite web |title=The History of Vim |url=https://jovicailic.org/2014/06/the-history-of-vim/ |website=Jovica Ilic |date=5 June 2014}}</ref>{{better source needed|this is a [[WP:BLOG|blog]], not written by an expert in the field|date=June 2022}} On November 1, 2015, the first version of [[Neovim|NeoVim]] was released.<ref>{{Cite web |title=0.1-first-public-release Milestone · neovim/neovim |url=https://github.com/neovim/neovim/milestone/5?closed=1 |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=GitHub |language=en}}</ref>

In 2003, [[Notepad++]], a source code editor for Windows, was released by Don Ho. The intention was to create an alternative to the java-based source code editor, JEXT<ref name="Orin 2015">{{cite web |last1=Orin |first1=Andy |title=Behind The App: The Story Of Notepad++ |url=https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/06/behind-the-app-the-story-of-notepad/ |website=Lifehacker Australia |access-date=17 June 2022 |language=en-AU |date=18 June 2015}}</ref> 

In 2015, [[Microsoft]] released Visual Studio Code as a lightweight and cross-platform alternative to their [[Visual Studio]] IDE.<ref name="Somesegar 2015">{{cite web |last1=Somasegar |first1=S |title=Introducing Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2015 RC, Application Insights Public Preview and .NET Core Preview for Linux and Mac - Somasegar's blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs |url=http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2015/04/29/introducing-visual-studio-code-visual-studio-2015-rc-application-insights-public-preview-and-net-core-for-linux-and-mac.aspx |website=blogs.msdn.com/ |publisher=Microsoft |access-date=17 June 2022 |date=4 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704023456/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2015/04/29/introducing-visual-studio-code-visual-studio-2015-rc-application-insights-public-preview-and-net-core-for-linux-and-mac.aspx |archive-date=4 July 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The following year, Visual Studio Code became the Microsoft product using the Language Server Protocol.<ref name="Krill 2016"/> This code editor quickly gained popularity and emerged as the most widely used source code editor.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021 |url=https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2021#overview |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=Stack Overflow |language=en}}</ref>{{better source|date=January 2025}}