kilua

I remember that tutorial fondly. I played around with kilo when it was released, and eventually made a multi-buffer version with support for scripting with embedded Lua. Of course it was just a fun hack not a serious thing, I continue 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

Like many I appreciated seeing Antirez's kilo project, and went my own direction with a trivial fork: adding support for an embedded lua scripting language, allowing multiple buffers, and flexible syntax highlighting for different languages, etc. For me one of the challenges was getting UTF8 support, since I live in Finland and am exposed to ä, ö, and other characters. It was a fun learning experience, even though I never intended it to become a "real editor" and I continue to use emacs on a daily basis. Quickly looking over the (closed) bug reports I see the discussion I had with myself back in 2016 which largely caused me to rewrite 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

I forked that to add support for Lua-based scripting, multiple buffers, etc. Fun exercise: https://github.com/skx/kilua

There are many forks of this, which I think is a testament to how simple, clean, and easy to modify this code was. The initial blog-post which announced the editor is worth a read, as is the discussion here: http://antirez.com/news/108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065217 My own version adds Lua support, multiple buffers, and similar features. It is by no means the best of the editors but I had fun playing with it - to the extent I was almost tempted to write an editor. (But then I realized I already have vim for writing email, and emacs for everything else. The world really doesn't need another editor!) https://github.com/skx/kilua/

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 configured and scripted via Lua, and would love to see Lua added to "all the things".

Lua is great for 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 - again scripted by lua: https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/

Kilo's supported commands are[1]: CTRL-S: Save CTRL-Q: Quit CTRL-F: Find string in file (ESC to exit search, arrows to navigate) It's available in a lot of well-used distros: https://pkgs.org/search/kilo but doesn't look like it's in Arch, etc. Kilua looks cool also as it has more similar keybindings to Emacs[2]: Ctrl-x Ctrl-o Open a new file in the current buffer. Ctrl-x Ctrl-s Save the current file. Ctrl-x Ctrl-c Quit. Ctrl-x c Create a new buffer Ctrl-x n Move to the next buffer. Ctrl-x p Move to the previous buffer. Ctrl-x b Select buffer from a list M-x Evaluate lua at the prompt. Ctrl-r: Regular expression search. but the goal would be to have that available in a package manager in a default install, so that after logging into any server where I'm a sudoer, I could: