kilua

A minimal text-editor with lua scripting. (by skx)

Kilua Alternatives

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kilua reviews and mentions

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  • A nano like text editor built with pure C
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Dec 2023
    Like many I appreciated seeing Antirez's kilo project, and went my own direction with a trivial fork:

    Adding support for an embedded lua scripting language, allowing multiple buffers, and flexible syntax highlighting for different languages, etc.

    For me one of the challenges was getting UTF8 support, since I live in Finland and am exposed to ä, ö, and other characters. It was a fun learning experience, even though I never intended it to become a "real editor" and I continue to use emacs on a daily basis.

    Quickly looking over the (closed) bug reports I see the discussion I had with myself back in 2016 which largely caused me to rewrite the core in C++ so I could take advantage of modern facilities to make UTF8 work more easily:

    https://github.com/skx/kilua/issues/49

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skx/kilua is an open source project licensed under BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of kilua is C++.


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