SciTE is a great text editor – in fact I tested a lot of text editors on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, but always come back to SciTE since it is comfortable but still fast and small. Everytime I install SciTE on a machine I change the settings so that they fit my need. It’s time to post them somewhere, so that I modify SciTE the next time faster ;).

Go to Options->Open User Options File and paste the following

if PLAT_GTK
  position.left=15
  position.top=32
  position.width=800
  position.height=700
statusbar.visible=1
line.margin.visible=1
load.on.activate=1
toolbar.visible=1
caret.line.back=#FFF600
caret.line.back.alpha=50

# Indentation
tabsize=2
indent.size=2
use.tabs=1

open.filter=\
$(all.files)\
All Source|$(source.files)|\
$(filter.ada)\
$(filter.conf)\
$(filter.asm)\
$(filter.bash)\
$(filter.caml)\
$(filter.cmake)\
$(filter.cpp)\
$(filter.ch)\
$(filter.css)\
$(filter.d)\
$(filter.fortran)\
$(filter.inno)\
$(filter.java)\
$(filter.js)\
$(filter.kix)\
$(filter.lua)\
$(filter.pascal)\
$(filter.perl)\
$(filter.php)\
$(filter.properties)\
$(filter.ps)\
$(filter.python)\
$(filter.r)\
$(filter.tcl)\
$(filter.tex)\
$(filter.text)\
$(filter.vb)

#font.base=font:!Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,size:11
font.base=font:!Monospace,size:11
font.small=font:!Monospace,size:10
font.comment=font:!Monospace,size:11