Project Description

A simple and extensible Lua IDE and debugger. It supports multiple file formats, “api” for autocompletion and tooltips, and custom command-line tools. Its main focus is extensibility for target applications using Lua.

Features

• Written in Lua, so easily customizable
• Automatically loads several ‘plugin’ like classes
  • applications: overall control of applications settings
  • specs (spec/): file syntax, lexer, keywords
  • apis (api/): for code-completion and tool-tips
  • interpreters (interpreters/): how a project is run
  • config (cfg/): contains style and basic editor settings
  • tools (tools/): additional tools, e.g. cg compiler, dx fxc compiler
• Auto-completion for functions, keywords…
• Function tips
• Function list in file (quick jump to)
• Function call highlighting
• Bracket matching/highlighting
• Project file browser
• Experimental type/class guessing for auto-completion
• Support for different editor styles
• Console to directly test code snippets with local and remote execution
• Integrated debugger (with support for local and remote debugging)

Frontends

There is currently two front-ends using the same editor engine. The original one is Estrela, which has a focus on 3d graphics related usage of Lua, especially in combination with the luxinia engine or luxinia2 framework. The second front-end is ZeroBrane Studio (zbstudio) which has a focus on using Lua in education, mobile development, and robotics.

Both are part of the standard distribution.

Installation

$ git clone git://github.com/pkulchenko/ZeroBraneStudio.git zbstudio
  or
$ git clone git://estrelaeditor.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/estrelaeditor/estrelaeditor estrelaeditor

Usage

Open File(s):
  <exe> <filename> [<filename>...]
  any non-option will be treated as filename

Overriding Config:
  <exe> [...] -cfg "<luacode overriding config>" [...]
  e.g.: zbstudio.exe -cfg "singleinstance=false;" somefile.lua

Author

Estrela Editor

Luxinia Dev: Christoph Kubisch (crazybutcher@luxinia.de)

ZeroBrane Studio and MobDebug

ZeroBrane LLC: Paul Kulchenko (paul@kulchenko.com)

License

See LICENSE file.