Textadept
Sign in to saveTextadept is a free software minimalist text editor designed for computer programming. Distributed under the MIT license, it is written in C, C++ and Lua and is extensible using Lua. 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.
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- Instance of
- text editor
- Official website
- foicica.com/textadept
- Image
- Textadept.png
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- programmed in
- C++
- software version identifier
- 12.9
- operating system
- Berkeley Software Distribution
- Commons category
- Textadept
- source code repository URL
- github.com/orbitalquark/textadept
- user manual URL
- orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/manual.html
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Textadept is a free software minimalist text editor designed for computer programming. Distributed under the MIT license, it is written in C, C++ and Lua and is extensible using Lua. 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.
Similar to 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 lines. When running in a graphical interface Textadept purposely does not save window size or position, leaving this up to the window manager.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Textadept” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.