orbitalquark/scintillua

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Scintillua enables Scintilla lexers to be written in Lua, particularly using LPeg. It can also be used as a standalone Lua library for syntax highlighting support.

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…Mitchell's other projects, Scintillua. You'll find the source for all the built-in lexers in there. https://github.com/orbitalquark/scintillua The documentation for Scintillua also gets pulled into Textadept's API documentation as a…
comment by Fwirt · 2026-03-04 · in Textadept
…use lpeg lexers for scintilla. It supports over 120 languages and it’s super easy to add new ones. https://github.com/orbitalquark/scintillua You can also use it as a standalone lua library. I packaged it up to make a faster (but much less…
comment by jpe90 · 2023-02-19 · in Scintilla is a free source code editing component with a permissive license
Personally, I'd like to see Lpeg integration, and support for Scintillua lexers: https://github.com/orbitalquark/scintillua Which would give fairly complete syntax coverage, and a good foundation for building more sophisticated tools. Lua…
comment by samatman · 2022-10-12 · in Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua