lua & Scitilla [was: Re: Domain Specific Languages]

[Martin Spernau <martin@...>]

Nick Trout wrote:
> By the time you've added all the complexity and bulk of an XML parser and
> zlib, you could have just add Lua to SciTE? Its a good editor but what it
> lacks is decent per-language options (eg. indenting is the small in all
> languages and must be altered explicitly). A scripting language would make
> sc1 a very powerful lightweight editor. You could easily configure it in Lua
> and expose and interface for editing like MSDev. (This is what I'm trying to
> do with VisLua).


I think if you have a look at Editor.wx.lua Example contained in 
P.Winwoods 1.2 wxLua download you will find it to be very far along the 
way to do just that. wxLua incorporates the Scintilla text control in a 
nice way.
http://www.luascript.thersgb.net/
-Martin