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nano written in lua

lua-nano

nano writen in lua.

WARNING: WIP

this project is only in the preveiw stages as indecated by the 'p' before the version.

how to use

currently lua nano only has 6 keyboard shortcuts:

• ^O writes the current buffer to a file
• ^X closes the editor WITHOUT saving
• ^F finds text (no regex)
• ^N goes to next instance of found text
• ^G replaces text
• alt-f finds text (with regex)

other than that the editor uses standered up/down/left/right to move the cursor and typeing works fine.

downloading

There is no easy way of getting a release currently. You can run it if you have lua5.3 installed and the luarocks pakage lua-term. Then, in the projects directory, simply type ./main.lua to open the editor or ./main.lua file.txt to open a spicific file.

basic debian instlation instructions (with sudo installed):

1. sudo apt install lua5.3 luarocks
2. sudo luarocks install lua-term
3. cd /tmp
4. git clone https://github.com/BEN1JEN/lua-nano
5. cd lua-nano
6. chmod +x main.lua
7. sudo cp main.lua /usr/bin/lano
8. sudo cp -r libs /usr/local/lib/lua/5.3/

other install info:

• Both lua5.3 and luarocks shuld be in most package managers (eg. yum, pacman, rpm, etc...)
• The install.sh script shuld work as long as you have sudo install and are running a debian-based distrobution.
• Currently windows is not, and will not be supported, as the windows command prompt is simply terrible.

requirements:

• lua 5.3
• lua-term
• linux command shell