Textadept

Textadept
Original author(s)	Mitchell
Initial release	2007; 15 years ago
Stable release	11.2 / 2 August 2021; 5 months ago
Repository	github.com/orbitalquark/textadept/ ;
Written in	C, Lua
Operating system	Linux, BSD, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, macOS
Type	Text editor
License	MIT
Website	foicica.com/textadept/

Textadept is a free software minimalist text editor designed for computer programming. Distributed under the MIT license, it is written in C and Lua and is extensible using Lua.^[2] Textadept can use either a graphical user interface or a text-based user interface when running in a terminal window. Textadept uses the Scintilla editing component. Textadept's developer makes the curses wrapper library for Scintilla used by Textadept available separately.^[3]

In common with Emacs, Textadept is deeply extensible; the Lua API has access to any subsystem of the program. Despite this, the developer states that one of his goals is for the C portion to not exceed 2000 lines of code and for the Lua portion to never exceed 4000 LOC. When running in a graphical interface Textadept purposely does not save window size or position, leaving this up to the window manager.