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Consider taking a look at: https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/ https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/. It's a rather "old kid on the block" actually, i

by akavel 5y ago

Consider taking a look at: https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/ https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/. It's a rather "old kid on the block" actually, it's quite minimal ("Relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, the editor consists of less than 2000 lines of C code and less than 4000 lines of Lua code") and it is crazy extensible; actually in my experience trying it, I found it too much extensible - it was too easy for me to break it while trying to configure it. Anyway, IMO it's a project definitely worth taking a look at. (Note: if it's not immediately obvious from the website, it does have a terminal UI version.)

andai 5y ago
See also: Lite, written in C and Lua https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23126458 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23126458 I use the lite-xl fork https://lite-xl.com/ https://lite-xl.com/
girvo 5y ago
Indeed, Textadept was one of my go-to editors for this, and scripting it in Lua was fantastic! But again, it's not quite what I am after, and I'm obviously explaining it badly :) Basically, I'd like the editor to understand the AST of the language(s, including mixed-language files, which is really hard) and be able to hook into parts of that AST to say "while this is a string, it's really this weird DSL that hooks into Javascript, so look for symbols here, here and here". Its definitely possible to make Vim, Emacs and TA work this way, but its a lot more work than I had in mind, when I tried to extend them (well, not Emacs. It might be best at this, I'm just not a good emacs user) to achieve what I was after at the time, which was understanding the dependency injection annotation patterns from Symfony in PHP. I think one could get pretty close with LSPs and the powerful AST parsers we have nowadays. Though doing it fast might be difficult!

by akavel 5y ago

andai 5y ago

See also: Lite, written in C and Lua https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23126458 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23126458 I use the lite-xl fork https://lite-xl.com/ https://lite-xl.com/

girvo 5y ago

Indeed, Textadept was one of my go-to editors for this, and scripting it in Lua was fantastic! But again, it's not quite what I am after, and I'm obviously explaining it badly :) Basically, I'd like the editor to understand the AST of the language(s, including mixed-language files, which is really hard) and be able to hook into parts of that AST to say "while this is a string, it's really this weird DSL that hooks into Javascript, so look for symbols here, here and here". Its definitely possible to make Vim, Emacs and TA work this way, but its a lot more work than I had in mind, when I tried to extend them (well, not Emacs. It might be best at this, I'm just not a good emacs user) to achieve what I was after at the time, which was understanding the dependency injection annotation patterns from Symfony in PHP. I think one could get pretty close with LSPs and the powerful AST parsers we have nowadays. Though doing it fast might be difficult!