Post subject: Notepad++ Lua plugin or best editor?
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One thing that can really change my experience coding is the editor. Do you guys have anything effective for writing lua plugins?
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Notepad++ and Sublime Text 3 are both fantastic editors with LUA syntax highlighting pre-installed.
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I’m not all that advanced in this field but I find Notepad++ to be really good.
Post subject: Re: Notepad++ Lua plugin or best editor?
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Dwood15 wrote:
writing lua plugins?
It is lua scripts not plugins, despite what a certain well known person keeps saying
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Using a Lua IDE is pretty much useless for debugging, since you can't use the emulator functions in the process... Or can we? I use Notepad++ plus the following Lua function parser:
Language: xml

<association langID="23" id="lua_function"/>
[...]
Language: xml

<parser id="lua_function" displayName="Lua" commentExpr="((--\[=*\[.*?)\]=*\]|(--.*?$))"> <function mainExpr="function\(\s*(([_A-Za-z][\w_]*|\.\.\.)\s*,?\s*)*\)|function\s+([_A-Za-z][\w_]*\.\s*)*([_A-Za-z][\w_]*[\.:]\s*)?[_A-Za-z][\w_]*\s*\(" displayMode="$className->$functionName"> <functionName> <nameExpr expr="function\(\s*(([_A-Za-z][\w_]*|\.\.\.)\s*,?\s*)*\)|\s([_A-Za-z][\w_]*\.\s*)*([_A-Za-z][\w_]*[\.:]\s*)?[_A-Za-z][\w_]*\s*\("/> <nameExpr expr="function\(\s*(([_A-Za-z][\w_]*|\.\.\.)\s*,?\s*)*\)|[_A-Za-z][\w_]*\s*\("/> <nameExpr expr="function\(\s*(([_A-Za-z][\w_]*|\.\.\.)\s*,?\s*)*\)|[_A-Za-z][\w_]*"/> </functionName> <className> <nameExpr expr="function\(\s*(([_A-Za-z][\w_]*|\.\.\.)\s*,?\s*)*\)|\s([_A-Za-z][\w_]*\.\s*)*([_A-Za-z][\w_]*[\.:]\s*)?[_A-Za-z][\w_]*\s*\("/> <nameExpr expr="function\(\s*(([_A-Za-z][\w_]*|\.\.\.)\s*,?\s*)*\)|\s([_A-Za-z][\w_]*\.\s*)*([_A-Za-z][\w_]*[\.:]\s*)?"/> <nameExpr expr="function\(\s*(([_A-Za-z][\w_]*|\.\.\.)\s*,?\s*)*\)|([_A-Za-z][\w_]*\.\s*)*([_A-Za-z][\w_]*[\.:]\s*)?"/> <nameExpr expr="function\(\s*(([_A-Za-z][\w_]*|\.\.\.)\s*,?\s*)*\)|([_A-Za-z][\w_]*\.\s*)*[_A-Za-z][\w_]*\s*[\.:]"/> <nameExpr expr="function|([_A-Za-z][\w_]*\.\s*)*[_A-Za-z][\w_]*\s*"/> </className> </function> </parser>
If someone happens to know a better parser, please share :p
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Thanks for the input. I've been using Notepad++, but without being able to map out variables and such easily i'm kind of stuck doing it the hard way. Oh well. This is partly why I hate lua, without at least a 'var' before a variable being required (yes, i know about local) it can be hard to trace the flow of a program by eyeballing it.