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** title:      IDEs
** author:     Brian Frank
** created:    23 Nov 08
** copyright:  Copyright (c) 2009, Brian Frank and Andy Frank
** license:    Licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0
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Overview [#overview]
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Despite Fantom being such a young language, there are many projects
for bringing Fantom support to your favorite IDE.  Note many of these
projects are still in early development.

Netbeans FantomIDE (tcolar) [#netbeans]
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FantomIDE is an IDE for the Fantom language based on Netbeans
It can be installed *as a plugin* to an existing Netbeans installation
or as a *standalone IDE*.  It contains out of the box support for
Fantom as well as Java, Javascript, CSS, HTML, XML, Subversion, Mercurial.

  - [Home Page]`http://fanide.colar.net/home`
  - [Screencast]`http://www.colar.net/fanide/fansuite2.htm`
  - [Download]`http://fanide.colar.net/install`

Eclipse F4 (xored software) [#eclipse]
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F4 is an Eclipse-based IDE for Fantom which is written mostly in Fantom
itself. It can be installed as a set of plugins via Eclipse update site
or as a standalone application:

  - [Home Page]`http://xored.com/f4`

TextMate Bundle (msl) [#textmate]
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Fantom bundle for TextMate:

 - [Home Page]`http://github.com/martinlau/fantom-textmate-bundle`

Text Editors  [#textEditors]
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The Fantom distro contains configuration files for many common text editors
under "adm/tools" including:
  - Emacs
  - jEedit
  - TextPad
  - Vim

Flux [#flux]
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The Fantom distro includes a very basic editor called `Flux` which
provides syntax color coding for Fantom, Java, C#, etc.

