The Prolog Development Tool - A Prolog IDE for Eclipse

The PDT is a Prolog IDE provided as a plug-in for the Eclipse Platform. All PDT features are implemented for SWI-Prolog, most also for Logtalk¹⁾. All native SWI-Prolog development tools (graphical tracer / debugger, profiler, …) can be used within the PDT.

Current features include (Click on any of the section titles below to see the related manual section):

• Prolog Editor
  • Syntax and singleton variable highlighting
  • Code Completion (module-aware)
  • Outline (module- and multifile-aware)
  • Quick outline (Ctrl O) with context help for documented source code
  • Find definition (module- and import-aware)
  • Find references (module-, import-, metaterm- and documentation-aware)
  • Warning and errors annotations (upon saving)
  • Keyboard shortcuts

• Prolog Console View
  • Central point for interaction with multiple Prolog processes
  • “Follow editor” mode or explicit process switching
  • Separate history for each Prolog process
  • Color highlighting of warnings and errors
  • Adjustable fonts and colors
  • Code Completion
  • Keyboard shortcuts

• SWI Prolog GUI Debugger (home)
  • Source level debugger
  • Breakpoints
  • Stack state
  • Variable bindings
  • Backtracking visualisation

• SWI Prolog Profiler (home)
  • Statistics on time spent in invoked predicates

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