- Unlimited number of editors
- Configurable window layout
- Configurable syntax hilighting
- Sourcecode autocompletion
- Sourcecode calltips
- Sourcecode folding
- Brace matching
- Error highlighting
- Advanced search functionality including project wide search and replace
- Integrated class browser
- Makro recordings
- Integrated version control interface for Cvs,
- Subversion and Mercurial repositories (as plugins)
- Integrated sourcecode documentation system
- Integrated python debugger including support to debug multithreaded applications
- Integrated, full featured Ruby debugger
- Integrated profiling and code coverage support
- Integrated task (todo items) management
- Advanced project management facilities
- Interactive Python shell including syntax hilighting and autocompletion
- Interactive Ruby shell including syntax hilighting and autocompletion
- Integrated rope refactoring tool (as optional plugin) (eric4 only)
- Application diagrams
- running external applications from within the IDE
- integrated unittest support
- Integrated CORBA support based on omniORB
- Integrated interface to cx_freeze (as optional plugin)
- Integrated interface to PyLint (as optional plugin)
- Many integrated wizards for regex and Qt dialogs (as plugins)
- Localizations. Currently Eric is available in English, German, French, Russian, Czech, Spanish, Italian, Turkish and Chinese.
Menginstall Eric IDE di Mandriva 2010.1
Eric (bukan nama orang) adalah sebuah aplikasi IDE (Integrated Development Environment) untuk bahasa Python dan Ruby. Eric IDE sendiri ditulis dalam bahasa python dan berbasis pada platform toolkit GUI QT yang juga dipakai oleh KDE.
Selain Qt, Eric IDE juga memanfaatkan Scintilla sebagai kendali editornya. Saat ini Eric IDE sudah memasuki versi stable ke 4 (eric4) yang berbasis Qt4 dan Python 2. Sedangkan unstable versi eric5 telah menggunakan Qt4 dan Python 3.
Berikut adalah fitur Eric IDE secara umum (sumber: http://eric-ide.python-projects.org)