Lua_Editors

• Introduction
  • Eclipse
  • SciTE
  • LuaIDE
  • Crimson Editor
  • PSPad
  • SubEthaEdit
  • TextMate
  • Smultron

Introduction

The main reference for Lua scripting is available at www.lua.org.
At this page http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaAddons are listed a lot of tools;

Eclipse

A smart solution is using Eclipse IDE with Lua plugin.
Eclipse is an open source and multiplatform develop environment downloadable from www.eclipse.org just download the IDE and copy the LuaEclipse plugin http://www.ideais.com.br/luaeclipse/ in the plugin directory.

Probably the best solution for programmer, but Eclipse is very Heavy, and a bit slow because it's written totally in Java.

SciTE

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

Probably the smaller, multi-OS and freeware solution to editing Lua.

SciTE can be configurated in a lot of manner,it have syntax coloring, auto-indentation and API/Class browsing!! With some configutation files SciTE can help to write Pipmak lua file proposing all Pipmak functions and methods with their parameter and a litle explanation in-line.

See at [Configuring_Scite_for_Pipmak].

LuaIDE

There is a useful IDE for Lua for Windows at: http://www.gorlice.net.pl/~rybak/luaide/

But it's not more maintained.

Crimson Editor

Another multi-purpose IDE for Windows which has Lua capability built-in is at: http://www.crimsoneditor.com

PSPad

A very good freeware editor for Windows with syntax coloring and more.

http://www.pspad.com/

SubEthaEdit

For Mac OS X, SubEthaEdit is a text editor that includes syntax coloring and a function popup menu for Lua. Version 2.2, available here, is free for non-commercial use.

TextMate

TextMate is also an excellent all-purpose text editor that has syntax coloring for practically every known language, but is probably overkill if you only need Lua and don't do general scripting or programming.

Smultron

Smultron is a free text editor for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger with a number of useful features including syntax colouring.

[Christian Walther]

SeryousYew, would you mind if I change LUA to Lua in your text? There's no reason to capitalize it, it's not an acronym. [[User:Cwalther|Cwalther]] 04:45, 8 January 2007 (PST)

Sure, no problem. --[[User:SeryousYew|SeryousYew]] 08:33, 8 January 2007 (PST)