I recently mentioned that I'd forked Antirez's editor and added lua to it.

I've been working on it, on and off, for the past week or two now. It's finally reached a point where I'm content:

• The undo-support is improved.
• It has buffers, such that you can open multiple files and switch between them.
  • This allows this to work "kilua *.txt", for example.
• The syntax-highlighting is improved.
  • We can now change the size of TAB-characters.
  • We can now enable/disable highlighting of trailing whitespace.
• The default configuration-file is now embedded in the body of the editor, so you can run it portably.
• The keyboard input is better, allowing multi-character bindings.
  • The following are possible, for example ^C, M-!, ^X^C, etc.

Most of the obvious things I use in Emacs are present, such as the ability to customize the status-bar (right now it shows the cursor position, the number of characters, the number of words, etc, etc).

Anyway I'll stop talking about it now :)

• https://github.com/skx/kilua

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