| At this time, the $50 SciTE application for Mac is not working all that well. That being said, this is just about getting lua safely and correctly installed in the first place. Heck the macOS included TextEdit app will work with regard to writing lua scripts, and after that it is just a matter of calling them via lua on the terminal. I just happen to like Bbedit for lua, python etc. Bbedit can be downloaded and used during the free demo time and then, if not purchased, reverts into a TextWrangler mode which works just fine. Vim is right there in the Mac Unix (Darwin) software via the terminal. I messed with it, but really do not care for it all that much.
I have started using Xcode for other things (C and Swift) for the first time, and it is not all that bad, but not good for lua.
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.phpOh, 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 See [2]: [2] http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaEditorSupportSome of the entries may be out of date.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/ReleasesNot 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.
-- Cheers, Kein-Hong Man (esq.) Selangor, Malaysia
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