Lua mode

lua-mode is a major mode for editing Lua sources in Emacs.

If you have a problem or a suggestion about lua-mode, please, let me know about it via github's Issue Tracker.

INSTALLATION

EL-GET INSTALLATION

El-get is a package manager which greatly simplifies adding modules to your Emacs and keeping them up-to-date. Once you have el-get set up, installing lua-mode can be done with

<M-x> el-get-install "lua-mode"

and updating is no more than

<M-x> el-get-update "lua-mode"`

Please, consult with el-get documentation for further information.

MANUAL INSTALLATION

To install, you need to make sure that lua-mode.el is on your load-path (and optionally byte-compile it) and to set up Emacs to automatically enable lua-mode for *.lua files or ones that contain lua hash-bang line (#!/usr/bin/lua). Putting this snippet to .emacs should be enough in most cases:

    ;;;; This snippet enables lua-mode

    ;; This line is not necessary, if lua-mode.el is already on your load-path
    (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/directory/where/lua-mode-el/resides")

    (autoload 'lua-mode "lua-mode" "Lua editing mode." t)
    (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.lua$" . lua-mode))
    (add-to-list 'interpreter-mode-alist '("lua" . lua-mode))

FEATURES

syntactic indentation & highlighting (including multiline literals/comments)
evaluation of lines/regions/functions/files in Lua subprocess or direct interaction with its REPL
documentation lookup (using online/offline reference manual, e.g. string.find)
imenu integration
HideShow integration

CUSTOMIZATION

The following variables are available for customization (see more via M-x customize-group lua):

lua-indent-level (default 3): indentation offset in spaces
lua-default-application (default "lua"): command to start up the interpreter
lua-default-command-switches (default "-i"): arguments to pass to the interpreter on startup (make sure -i is there if you expect working with REPL)
lua-search-url-prefix (default "http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-"): base URL for documentation lookup
lua-indent-string-contents (default nil): set to t if you like to have contents of multiline strings to be indented like comments

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