Re: How do I get the filename and line number from a failed luaL_loadfile?

["A.S. Bradbury" <asb@...>]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Peter Odding <xolox@home.nl> wrote:
> E. Wing wrote:
> Sorry I can't help you with regards to luaL_loadfile(), however I /might/
> have an alternate solution... My favorite text editor is Vim and it supports
> user-defined actions on events like saving a file. I've set up such an
> action that runs `luac -p ...` when I save a Lua script. If luac finds any
> parse errors in my script then Vim will show me a list of those errors and
> jump to the first one. I'm not suggesting you switch text editors but maybe
> your text editor can be scripted in a similar manner?

Could you share how you set this up, perhaps add it to the wiki?

Alex