# jacobslusser/ScintillaNET

A Windows Forms control, wrapper, and bindings for the Scintilla text editor.

Repository: https://github.com/jacobslusser/ScintillaNET
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/scintillanet
Language: C#
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: editor, scintilla, scintillanet, wrapper, windows, c-sharp
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-10-02T18:49:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4226, "days_push": 1066, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1001, forks 245 (observed 2026-09-03T02:15:13.025212+00:00)

## What it is
A Windows Forms control, wrapper, and bindings for the Scintilla source code editing component, written in C#. It provides syntax styling, code completion, error indicators, and debugger-style markers for building code editors in .NET applications.

## Use cases
- embed a source code editor in a Windows Forms app
- add syntax highlighting to a .NET desktop application
- build a custom code editor with code completion in C#
- show error indicators and breakpoints in a text editor control
- use a Scintilla editor in a WPF application via WindowsFormsHost

## When to choose
- you need a full-featured code editing component in a WinForms or WPF .NET app
- you want syntax styling, code folding, and completion without building from scratch
- you want a MIT-licensed wrapper around the native Scintilla control

## When to avoid
- you are building a cross-platform (non-Windows) application
- you need a web-based or Electron text editor
- you use a .NET UI framework other than WinForms/WPF

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: editor, ui-components
- domain: text-editors, developer-tools, desktop-applications
- platform: windows, dotnet
- tags: scintilla, winforms, syntax-highlighting, code-editor, csharp, wpf, desktop

## Member repositories
- jacobslusser/ScintillaNET (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:13.025212+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:16:06.612335+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jacobslusser/ScintillaNET (fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:13.025212+00:00, sha 828d2fded53d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.