Re: Lua Semantic Highlighting for Emacs

[Kristofer Karlsson <kristofer.karlsson@...>]

Just thought I'd extend the list of helpful utilities such as these:

Here's a Lua plugin for IntelliJ that also shows globals and locals in different colors:
http://bitbucket.org/sylvanaar2/lua-for-idea/wiki/Home

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:40 PM, David Manura <dm.lua@math2.org> wrote:

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Everett L Williams II
<rett@classicnet.net> wrote:
> Why not do the work in Scite.

This is being worked on http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaInspect , with
formal announcement probably in a week.  There have been a number of
recent efforts like this for various editors/IDEs of incorporating a
full parser with more intelligent analysis rather than just a lexer.
See http://lua-users.org/wiki/ProgramAnalysis .  I agree with Florian
(and similar comment has been made by Steve) that this does have the
potential to affect the usage of Lua, including the globals debate.