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

[Peter Odding <xolox@...>]

A.S. Bradbury wrote:
> 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

Actually I'm writing a Lua file type plug-in for Vim because 
$VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/lua.vim doesn't really do anything useful. I was 
planning to submit my first version to the list tonight for comments. 
Let me just add some docs and I'll get back to you in an hour or so :)

 - Peter Odding