Re: file:read("*n") reference manual entry improvement

[Paige DePol <lual@...>]

Yes, I do agree, it would probably become a spam magnet, which is why such
a system would need some dedicated people willing to do a lot of work with
little direct reward, other than helping future generations of Lua hackers! :)

I am using Xcode under OSX and it does a very nice job with syntax coloring,
but obviously it also has no annotation features.

~pmd~



On Oct 25, 2013, at 7:50 AM, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Paige DePol <lual@serfnet.org> wrote:
>> however, the official site is just showing the standard source without any
>> extra annotations apart from the source comments... unless I am missing something?
> 
> Missing nothing - the official site has much better styling, but does
> not support annotations.  Building a system that allows people with
> appropriate authorization to add stuff would be tricky - otherwise it
> would get full of spam.
> 
> One option is to keep a Lua 5.2.2 version on github and use their
> annotation/comment facility.
>