Textadept is a

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text editor A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. Such programs are sometimes known as "notepad" software (e.g. Windows Notepad). Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be u ...

designed for

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. Distributed under the

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license, it is written in C and

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and is extensible using Lua. Textadept can use either a

graphical user interface The GUI ( "UI" by itself is still usually pronounced . or ), graphical user interface, is a form of user interface that allows User (computing), users to Human–computer interaction, interact with electronic devices through graphical icon (comp ...

or a

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when running in a terminal window. Textadept uses the

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editing component. Textadept's developer makes the

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for Scintilla used by Textadept available separately. In common with

Emacs Emacs , originally named EMACS (an acronym for "Editor MACroS"), is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. The manual for the most widely used variant, GNU Emacs, describes it as "the extensible, customizable, ...

, Textadept is deeply extensible; the Lua

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has access to any subsystem of the program. Despite this, the developer states that one of his goals is for the C portion to not exceed 2000

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and for the Lua portion to never exceed 4000 LOC. When running in a graphical interface Textadept purposely does not save window size or position, leaving this up to the

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References

External links

Textadept home page

Free software directory entry

Textredux, a module providing text-based interfaces for core Textadept functionality

Textadept Language Lexers, Impression and tips on extending language support
Free text editors Unix text editors MacOS text editors Windows text editors Linux text editors Free software programmed in C Free software programmed in Lua (programming language) Text editors Software using the MIT license {{free-software-stub

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