skx/kilua
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A minimal text-editor with lua scripting.
7 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2016-12-01 · latest 2025-05-20
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…to do all my real editing with Emacs, but it did mean I got to choose the best project name: https://github.com/skx/kilua
comment by stevekemp · 2025-05-20 · in Kilo: A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search -
…the core in C++ so I could take advantage of modern facilities to make UTF8 work more easily: https://github.com/skx/kilua/issues/49
comment by stevekemp · 2023-12-25 · in Ptext: A Nano-like text editor built with pure C -
I forked that to add support for Lua-based scripting, multiple buffers, etc. Fun exercise: https://github.com/skx/kilua
comment by stevekemp · 2020-05-10 · in Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor -
…for writing email, and emacs for everything else. The world really doesn't need another editor!) https://github.com/skx/kilua/
comment by stevekemp · 2018-02-01 · in GRV – Git Repository Viewer -
My own fork of Antirez's kilo was created specifically to add Lua support: http://github.com/skx/kilua Having even basic support, for key-bindings, and reacting to events, is very useful. I wrote a console-based mail client which is…
comment by stevekemp · 2017-09-05 · in Show HN: A simple, tiny Vim and kilo-inspired editor -
…extensions, isn't it? I forked antizez's editor to add Lua support, and posted it here in the past: https://github.com/skx/kilua/ That works well for me, even with the minor omissions, and is well-paired with my console-based mail-client -…
comment by stevekemp · 2017-04-06 · in Build Your Own Text Editor -
…yum -y install some_package pacman -S some_package ... [1]: https://github.com/antirez/kilo [2]: https://github.com/skx/kilua
comment by gkafkg8y8 · 2016-12-01 · in The Emacs dumper dispute