Re: Dev environment for Lua Implementation

[Paul K <paulclinger@...>]

Denis,

> Believe it or not, the feature I love most is dup with ctrl+d. It duplicates
> the current selection (from a single char to a whole page), or (this is the
> great point) the current line by default. Dunno if it's common, but it's for
> sure the 1 reason why I don't use an even simpler and lighter editor.

This seems to be Scintilla's feature (geany is using Scintilla
editor). Most keyboard commands should work if they are not in
conflict with combinations used for other purposes:
http://www.scintilla.org/SciTEDoc.html.

Paul.

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:17 AM, spir <denis.spir@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/12/2012 16:13, Philippe Lhoste wrote:
>>
>> On 04/12/2012 13:46, spir wrote:
>>>
>>> On 04/12/2012 01:45, Karl Park wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am new to this list, so my apologies if the same question was asked.
>>>> (couldn't find a way to do some search on archived messages)
>>>>
>>>> I have been trying to learn about the lua itself (the implementation of
>>>> the
>>>> language), and I quickly found out that I am not productive on terminal
>>>> using gdb and emacs.
>>>>
>>>> So, I was wondering how to set up development environment/tools etc (I
>>>> am
>>>> on Mac OS X) as you work on the language itself.
>>>
>>>
>>> If you want a heavy IDE with complex features, probably some thing like
>>> Eclipse would do
>>> the job. For a lighter but efficient programming editor, i'd recommand
>>> geany
>>> (it's only
>>> drawback if language-specific settings are done via edition non-travially
>>> organised config
>>> files). I have not checked for OSX, but since it's cross-platforms and
>>> works
>>> on Linux,
>>> probably there is no issue. For your usage, it has builtin support of Lua
>>> & C,
>>> indeed.
>>
>>
>> Is Geany allowing to debug C code as well?
>>
>>  From what I have heard, Xcode is more or less the standard IDE to code in
>> Mac
>> OS X.
>
>
> Do you whther it has an integrated C debugger? If yes, afaik, no, or as an
> add-on (but I may have missed it, I personly only use debug tools for the
> memory).
> For more precise info, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geany and the
> website http://www.geany.org/Main/HomePage.
>
> Believe it or not, the feature I love most is dup with ctrl+d. It duplicates
> the current selection (from a single char to a whole page), or (this is the
> great point) the current line by default. Dunno if it's common, but it's for
> sure the 1 reason why I don't use an even simpler and lighter editor.
>
> Denis
>