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What is the best editor / interface to use when learning LUA on the PC? I've heard of Codea for the iPad but I'm after something equivalent on the PC, something that can test scripts there and then.

I'm using Sublime Text for all coding, including LUA. It has built in syntax highlighter and (simple) autocomplete which is enough for me. There are a lot of plugins out there so you can configure it however you want. I have installed some of the plugins found here, and although the article is written for PHP developers, most of the plugins listed there are language independent or support multiple languages. I have also found this one, but haven't tested it yet.

Thanks Avram but can you test your scripts from there? I have a few 'script editors' but I'm after one like Codea from where you can develop and test from the one application.

The last plugin I linked in my last post can do that, I think. It just needs luac.exe (on windows at least) that I'm about to download and connect with plugin (via plugin settings)

Thanks, I'll look into that.

Ok, I'm having a bit of trouble. I've installed Sublime Text and installed LuaForWindows_v5.1.4-46 in both 'Program Files' and 'Program Files (x86)' [as i have a 64 bit system] but it seems not to find Lua.



I have: print("hello world") and I'm getting



lua: cannot open : Invalid argument

[Finished in 0.4s with exit code 1]



Any ideas?

First, download and install this (ok, you have it installed, but someone else might not have it).



Then, in Sublime, go to Preferences > Package Settings > Lua Love > Settings - User; and copy/paste this:







Now, few notes:



1) You must escape backslash (\) with another backlash (so it becomes \\)

2) It seems you must use old dos 8.3 file naming convention (thus "progra~2")

3) I'm on Win7 x64 so my C:\Program Files\ is progra~1 and c:\Program Files (x86)\ is progra~2

4) It might be progra~1 on your machine

5) Or you can install Lua to c:\Lua\ and avoid this paths related mess



Works for me! But it only checks for syntax errors, even if you tried to run the script, you don't have FPSC:R specific functions (Prompt, Destroy, ...) so it would fail anyway...



p.s. This is all for Sublime 3. Lua Love supports Sublime 2, but I don't know if it's all same to configure plugin in Sublime 2

I created my fist lua script with http://luaedit.sourceforge.net/ It is not the best for beginners, but I like it

There is an online lua engine just Google test lua online and then if you are using something like notepad++ (which I like for scripting I find it good for a beginner) then just copy paste and run I know its not one program but its simple and effective

Sorry Avram, tried what you've said but it's still not happening.

Do not build the script (ctrl+b, or whatever), just type the code (edit any .lua file), it will report any syntax errors in the status bar of your Sublime text editor.

http://luaedit.sourceforge.net/