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| Posted by
| ThomasWatts
USA (66 posts) Bio
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| Tue 18 Dec 2007 08:36 PM (UTC) |
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| Are there any out there? I've searched a great deal and have found none. There are plenty of text editors written in everything from Python, Java, even Basic, but I have found zero in Lua. Has anyone ever written one or started on one then given up? I started one but have hit several road blocks mainly from the lack of core file manipulation.
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #1 on Tue 18 Dec 2007 11:50 PM (UTC) |
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| Do you mean an editor, written in Lua? And is this anything to do with SMAUG? I mean, are you trying to imbed an editor in the Smaug server?
Personally I use Crimson Editor, which is a great, free, editor that handles Lua text files quite well.
http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
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I started one but have hit several road blocks mainly from the lack of core file manipulation.
Why do you need to manipulate core files in an editor?
I would look on this site:
http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaAddons
There seem to be a lot of Lua editors there, I am not sure how many are actually written in Lua. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| ThomasWatts
USA (66 posts) Bio
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| Reply #2 on Wed 19 Dec 2007 01:38 AM (UTC) |
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| | Yes, sorry for the confusion. I do mean written in Lua, and yes it could be used to alter the any file dynamically, then have that file reloaded. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| David Haley
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| Reply #3 on Wed 19 Dec 2007 09:24 PM (UTC) |
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| There was a text editor written in Lua posted to the Lua mailing list a while ago, I think. I don't believe it was a GUI app, and it used character input. If this is to embed in a server, you'd have to figure out how to edit its character input, of course. :-)
And also, for server embedding, I don't think it would be usable, without the "immediate character mode" I suggested a while ago. The problem being that you want to send the editor characters one at a time, not grouped up in lines as you normally do in the MUD client. (In fact, the reason I had suggested the new character mode to begin with was to be able to talk to a shell on the MUD server for which single characters would have meaning.) |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
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