Hello, everyone
I am happy to announce the release of lua-mode, Emacs major mode for editing Lua.
Here's what you'll get by upgrading:
- support for Lua 5.2 goto statements
- revisit of Lua subprocess handling, code now is sent to subprocess via
loadstring rather than temporary files, which includes
- support for running Lua interpreter remotely
- proper stack traces for errors in the sent code
- preservation of source file pathname
- no more hang ups when sending code that produces no output
- support for reading input via REPL window
- fix interaction with electric-pair-mode, no more double closing parentheses
- better -- but still not perfect -- indentation for nested blocks:
x = foobar('arg1', function ()
print('foobar')
end)
^ this line is now unindented all the way back
- better consistency with Emacs ecosystem and user experience: over the years
lua-mode has strayed from the community guidelines, fix that a bit:
- fix character syntax hacks: '.' is now punctuation and '_' is now symbol
- remove number highlighting
- font-lock "nil", "true" and "false" as constants rather than keywords
- make font-locking of builtins more stable, enable it after ".." operator
- add missing modulo operator (%) to line-continuation tokens
Lua-mode's git repo now includes a stable branch which is also made available
via melpa-stable [1], so I'd encourage you to use it in case you're not up for
experimentation. Otherwise, please do check out the latest version via melpa
[2] or el-get [3], it's already ahead of stable including several fixes.
There's been a surge of enthusiasm recently and I'm looking forward to
everyone's bug reports and feature requests more than ever.
Cheers,
immerrr
1.
http://melpa-stable.milkbox.net/#/
2.
http://melpa.milkbox.net/#/3.
https://github.com/dimitri/el-get
