pfft, but can your komodo edit look this cool?

Sure.
(image is a link)

Ah that looks nice MidKnight. How long will it last without a license? Website doesn't say..

Forever!

Wow I must be getting old..

Have been testin this for the past week! Is sweet as honey for the workflow! Might see a Release this weekend.

You can use the NppExec plugin to parse errors from Spring or from "luac5.1 -p", the Lua compiler in syntax check mode. It can jump to errors lines too. You'll need to fiddle a bit with the options though.

luac5.1 can be found here.

Or use this, to parse the infolog in notepad++

http://springfiles.com/spring/tools/satans-bugfixer

A question to the more experienced devs - how do you refactor lua code?
At least how do you deal with basic things such as renaming functions/methods/fields that span multiple files?

It's probably no surprise, but when you start writing lua for spring, especially if you haven't written much lua in your life, there are many things that you will do wrong.

I have a couple of global utility functions, such as "GetIndex(array, value)", "GetValuesWithName(array, name)", and even stuff more specific to my project, such as "MakeVariablePanel(parent, varType)", and later I've discovered you can prefix function names so you don't pollute the global namespace, by creating stuff like "SCEN_EDIT.MakeVariablePanel(parent, varType)" and so I need to rename those occurrences in many files, which is a bit annoying to do.
Same thing applies to when I decided to move things into the global namespace with my "SCEN_EDIT." prefix instead of having it as a field in many objects.

Also how do you do the try/catch mechanics in lua? I've tried pcall but it seems weird, do you use that?

I find a nice way to replace certain text in lots of files to be a nice simple sed (stream editor unix utility) 1-liner.



'-i' means it will overwrite the old file (instead of making a new one)
's' means substitute
'OldText' is the text you will find to replace
'NewText' is the new text you replace it with
'g' means global, so it will swap the text for all occurances, not just the first

*.lua is the target (so any files with the lua extension in the current directory)

If you check the manual or google you can expand or change the functionality as needed, like to make it run recursively and such.

In Notepad++ there is a search'n'place in files, either all opened files, or all files with given extension in a given folder and subfolders. It can also be set to accept some regex.

Yes, I use pcall to do try catch.

I just added Lua support to sublimelint for those of you using Sublime Text 2.

This means inline syntax highlighting, saving you a pesky Spring reload for syntax typos and such.

http://github.com/lunixbochs/sublimelint/

Would it be possible to write ingame debugger?

I mean.. if you would echo out every value, every second line.. you could reconstruct the programs flow- and watch the values dance, and then ..

Would it be possible to have some sort of semantic parsing as well? F.e writing "Sping.Echo" is not syntactically incorrect, that happens to be a bigger problem for me and is quite a nuisance.



Maybe there's a better way to do that?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7804 ... bedded-lua suggests you can use some sort of remote debugging of sorts,
http://www.keplerproject.org/remdebug/index.html seems to require a small set of tools already mostly existing in Spring?

with notepad++ you can edit the .xml files in plugins\APIs\ and make your own autocomplete lists...
In a similiar way it should be possible to define some new words that get highlighted?

i can tell some funny stories about notepad++ suggesting typos that i made in coments..

notepad++ sure is popular, but it's only for windows