Any one uses another LUA IDE ?

[Roland]

Is there anyone using another LUA IDE than the built in. Nothing wrong with that one but its a bit limited. I'm not to familiar with what's out there and what suites Leadwerks nicely. Any suggestions? /Windows/

[Roland]

Aswer to myself Found this one. Seems to be an extension to VS2013.

Will test that one. Would be perfect for projects with both C++ and LUA

 

https://babelua.codeplex.com/

[Rick]

I use notepadd++ sometimes. The only thing you'll lose with these 3rd party ones is the debugging/stepping ability. I don't use that often myself but some might.

[Lunarovich]

I'm using Emacs. With settings that I've made, I have the following features:

• Auto-complete. I've added a custom-made dictionary file with LE classes and methods.
  
• Lua snippeting. I've made several snippeting templates - for generic loops, method definitions, etc.
  
• Syntax highlighting and auto-indentation. The latter is very, very useful: it's enforced and you can easily detect missing construct parts.
  
• On the fly syntax error checking - so that even before running a LE game, I can tell if there is anything obviously wrong with my code.
  

Plus, in the opposite window, I'm always keeping open a Lua console, so I can easily test various LUA constructs I'm not sure about.

[Lunarovich]

Emacs has quite steep learning curve. I've been using it for various purposes for years now. If you want some quick and decent solution, I can only recommend Atom.io

 

It's a modular editor based on package system. There is a nice package for Lua (you install it from the editor) which does syntax highlighting and auto-indentation. There are also packages for auto-completion and similar programming necessities.

[thehankinator]

I've not tried it yet but Microsoft released "Visual Studio Code", a free cross platform code editor. Looks pretty slick. https://code.visualstudio.com/

[macklebee]

I've not tried it yet but Microsoft released "Visual Studio Code", a free cross platform code editor. Looks pretty slick. https://code.visualstudio.com/

 

Also look at Josh's blog about it: http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/blog/1/entry-1459-using-visual-studio-code-with-leadwerks/