Re: Installing Lua on macOS in order to update Lua.

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 3/1/2018 7:52 PM, Glenn Travis wrote:
> Howdy Dirk,
> Well, I think that the users would have to be aware of the ZeroBrane app. I never saw it ‘mentioned’ in internet searches for lua, the most common return being the lua website, and links to the download page. I had not heard of it until it was brought up in this thread.
> Heck, I only found SciTE because it was referenced in the WoW lua book.

I think those of us (including myself) who are long-time non-Mac 
users won't be able to help much with Mac-related specifics. There 
are a lot more choices on Windows.

Any text editor will do actually, unless you prefer colour syntax 
highlighting for Lua and other helper features, then a 
programmer's editor is nice. Find good programmer's editors for 
the Mac. I think vim [1] is available anywhere, on almost all 
platforms.

[1] https://www.vim.org/download.php

Oh, a lot of people (including myself) have forgotten that the Lua 
community have a wiki. That's where informational resources are 
supposed to go. See [2]:

[2] http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaEditorSupport

Some of the entries may be out of date. But Geany [3] seems to be 
available for Mac. Geany uses the same engine (Scintilla) as 
SciTE; it has a more friendly GUI. Of course, I don't use a Mac, 
so I can only guess.

[3] https://www.geany.org/Download/Releases

Not being much of an IDE user, I mainly use SciTE, the file 
explorer, and a terminal window.


> Therefore, at this time, it seems that: it’s not all that easy. I did download it and messed with it last night, but as of this time, don’t really see an advantage over using Bbedit, and terminal lua calls. Perhaps the ZeroBrane Studio app could be mentioned in the download / install page?
> Of course if one is honest, the ZeroBrane Studio app is supposed to be paid for, vice the free lua download etc.
>
> > On Mar 1, 2018, at 2:09 AM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> >
> > 2018-03-01 3:38 GMT+02:00 Russell Haley:
> >
> > > Either way, Zerobrane is a good choice if you want to hack at Lua.
> >
> > The name seems to suggest that Zerobrane is aimed at "the casual Mac
> > terminal kinda users" "who for whatever reason wants to obtain lua as
> > easy as possible.


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