Textadept
Textadept is a free software minimalist text editor designed for computer programming. Distributed under the MIT license, it is written in C and Lua and is extensible using Lua.[1] Textadept can use either a graphical user interface or a text-based user interface when running in a terminal window. Textadept uses the Scintilla editing component. Textadept's developer makes the curses wrapper library for Scintilla used by Textadept available separately.[2]
| Original author(s) | Mitchell |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2007 |
| Stable release | 10.8
/ 1 January 2020 |
| Repository |  |
| Written in | C, Lua |
| Operating system | Linux, BSD, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, macOS |
| Type | Text editor |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | foicica |
In common with Emacs, Textadept is deeply extensible; the Lua API has access to any subsystem of the program. Despite this, the developer states that one of his goals is for the C portion to not exceed 2000 lines of code and for the Lua portion to never exceed 4000 LOC. When running in a graphical interface Textadept purposely does not save window size or position, leaving this up to the window manager.
References
External links
- Textadept home page
- Webupd8 review
- Free software directory entry
- Textredux, a module providing text-based interfaces for core Textadept functionality
- Textadept Language Lexers, Impression and tips on extending language support