Open Source Lua Text Editors for Linux

A fast, minimalist, and remarkably extensible cross-platform text editor. Textadept’s user interface is sleek and simple. Relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, the editor consists of less than 2000 lines of C and C++ code, and less than 4000 lines of Lua code. Textadept runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. It also has a terminal version, which is ideal for work on remote machines. Textadept is an ideal editor for programmers who want endless extensibility without sacrificing speed or succumbing to code bloat and featuritis. The editor gives you complete control over the entire application using the Lua programming language. Everything from moving the caret to changing menus and key bindings on the fly to handling core events is possible. Its potential is vast.

A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, and extremely extensible text editor written in C, and Lua, adapted from lite.

ecode is a lightweight multi-platform code editor designed for modern hardware with a focus on responsiveness and performance. It has been developed with the hardware-accelerated eepp GUI, which provides the core technology for the editor. The project comes as the first serious project using the eepp GUI, and it's currently being developed to improve the eepp GUI library as part of one of its main objectives.

A text editor.

gema is a general purpose text processing utility based on the concept of pattern matching. It reads an input file and copies it to an output file transforming the data as specified by the patterns defined by the user. See the "Wiki" tab for further information.

Refurbished Scintilla.orgs/SciTE with some additional patches. -- Features -- - Full MinGW and GTK SDKs Autocomplete.(190+) - Do system scripting (bash, applescript, cmd, powershell, perl, j/vbscript, awk) - Examine all sorts of data files (sql, regedit, mib, xml, yaml, json, vcard ...) - Review difference and patch files - Create makefiles (gnu make / cmake) - Edit html, css and config files (with calltips) - Describe circuits in vhdl and spice. ... - And finally; read & write source code: - [ Syntax highlighted ] - go, vala, pike, swift, flash, ch, rust - [ Calltip assisted ] - c/cpp11, js&jQuery, python, php, ruby, lua, c#, java, perl --Others-- - Restructured config files with inline docs - Scriptable via lua Extension. - Provides theming, a customizeable toolbar, a sidebar with a File Browser and a cleaned up options Menu. --- Summary --- Enjoy your vlc for sourceCode lecture ;) (30Langs)

FiatLux is a programmer's text editor written in C++ and wxWidgets. Can be extend with lua.

lite is a lightweight, minimalist text editor written in Lua. Designed for simplicity and extensibility, it provides a clean interface and core editing features with low resource usage. Its entire UI and logic are written in Lua, making it highly hackable and customizable. It’s aimed at developers who prefer speed and minimalism over feature bloat.

The aim of LucED is to develop a fast & responsive text editor with a simple but powerful user interface similar to NEdit, using embedded Lua script language, syntax highlighting configurable via PCRE regular expressions with arbitrarily nested patterns.

The pandoc_resume repository provides a flexible workflow for authoring a résumé or CV in Markdown and rendering it to polished outputs like PDF or HTML using Pandoc and ConTeXt. The idea is that you write a single resume.md (or equivalent Markdown) file with your content and structure, and then the build system handles conversion, styling, layout, and output generation. The project includes styles, templates, and assets (CSS, ConTeXt files, Lua filters) to shape how your résumé looks, controlling typography, sections, spacing, and visual formatting. It supports a “make all” workflow (or equivalent commands) to produce HTML and PDF in one go, so from your Markdown edits you can regenerate the outputs reliably. There is also a Docker / docker-compose setup so you can build across machines (including CI) without worrying about installing all the dependencies locally.

An attempt at a Xanalogical Web, comprised of a CGI system with both native and HTML interfaces, a set of standards, a backend supporting Transclusion, versioning, and a custom browser with support for Transpointing and editing.

WordGrinder is a light-weight character-cell word processor designed for text entry on the console, supporting Unicode and styled text. It provides a clean, easy-to-use interface that gets out of your way and get the job done. We've moved! Go visit http://cowlark.com/wordgrinder.

ZEE HAS MOVED TO GITHUB (see "Zee Web Site" link).

cpptags is a very small program that ties existing Linux/Unix utilities (cpp, ctags) together in such a way as to make the implementation of call tips and tag location more practical. It produces a context-aware tag file from a single C/C++ source.

led is a simple and easy-to-use but yet powerful line-oriented text editor. It is written in Urn Lisp and compiled to Lua, so it is available for every platform where Lua (version 5.1 or higher) is available as well; however some special features are available only with Lua 5.1 (or LuaJIT) on AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS and UNIX with XTerm. The latest release (18-Mar-2021) now supports also scripts.