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Welcome to the Textadept wiki.

Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and remarkably extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Written in a combination of C and Lua and relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over years, Textadept is an ideal editor for programmers who want endless extensibility without sacrificing speed and disk space, and without succumbing to code bloat and a superabundance of features.

See the project page for more information: https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/

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  • 🟢 active - has received updates recently
  • 🟡 semi-active - has received updates some time ago
  • 🟠 unmaintained - has not received updates in a long time
  • 🔴 dead - no longer available

Modules

Official

• 🟢 ctags -- A module for autoloading ctags, jumping between them, and autocompleting from them.
• 🟢 Spell Checking -- A module for spell checking.
• 🟢 File diffing -- A module for visualizing and merging the differences between two files.
• 🟢 Export -- A module for exporting buffers to various formats like HTML for printing.
• 🟢 LSP client module that communicates over theLanguage Server Protocolwith language servers in order to provide autocompletion, calltips, go to definition, etc. Sample language server configurations are here.
• 🟢 Lua REPL -- A Lua REPL using Textadept's Lua State.
• 🟢 Update Notifier -- Checks for application updates and notifies when one is available.
• 🟢 Scratch Buffers -- Treat untitled, unsaved, and typed buffers as scratch buffers.
• 🟢 Open File Mode -- A Textadept module that extends the editor's ui.command_entry with a mode that can open files relative to the current file or directory.
• 🟢 Textadept Export -- Textadept module for outputting source files into various formats like HTML.
• 🟢 LLM -- Chat with Large Language Models (LLMs a.k.a. AI) using Textadept.
• 🟢 Format -- Format/reformat paragraph and code.
• 🟢 Debugger -- Language debugging support for Textadept.
• Macro -- A simple module for recording and replaying of keyboard macros. Macros are now officially part of Textadept.
• ❔ File browser -- A simple split-view file browser pane.
• ❔ Comments

Custom

• 🟢 Analyzer -- A static analysis framework for Textadept. Currently, the module integrates luacheck and shows annotations and indicators (squiggle markers) for errors and warnings within the code editor.
• 🟢 Textredux (Fork) (https://github.com/snoopy/textredux) -- Contains various fixes and features
• 🟡 Textredux (https://github.com/rgieseke/textredux) -- Offers a set of text based replacement interfaces for core Textadept functionality, including a powerful file browser, buffer list, etc.
• 🟡 textadept-hydra -- Modeled on the emacs hydra plugin. Allows you to define key maps for related commands, with the ability to easily repeat commands by using a single keystroke.
• 🟠 textadept-vi (https://github.com/jugglerchris/textadept-vi) Some customisation for textadept to make it feel a bit like vim.
• 🟠 Elastic Tabstops -- An implementation of Nick Gravgaard’s Elastic Tabstops mechanism.
• 🔴 Hastebin -- Ahastebin client module for Textadept.
• 🔴 Lapis -- A module to work with thelapis web framework.
• 🔴 Love -- A module to work with theLÖVE game engine.
• 🔴 Linux -- A linux kernel development module. Pretty simple, but works and makes life easier when working on those kernel modules or other kernel business. dead link
• 🔴 Relative line numbers -- Module to display relative line numbers. Especially useful alongside vim-like modules.

Language Modules

Official modules for HTML, CSS, Ruby, Python, ReST, and YAML have been deprecated in favor of https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept-lsp. They are still available as archived versions: https://github.com/orbitalquark?tab=repositories&q=module&type=&language=&sort=

• 🟡 Lisp -- Structured editing for Lisps
• 🟠 D (https://github.com/Hackerpilot/textadept-d) -- works withDscanner program to provide autocomplete for D code.
• 🟠 Markdown (https://github.com/rgieseke/ta-markdown)
• 🟠 Javascript -- A module for Javascript.
• 🟠 YANG -- A module for YANG.
• 🟠 Moonscript by the creator of the language.
• 🔴 ConTeXt/LaTeX
• 🔴 CoffeeScript
• 🔴 Python -- Helps automate indentation in Python code.
• 🔴 LaTeX -- Snippets for LaTeX markup.
• 🔴 XML -- Closes XML tags as you type them. Can automatically close tags at the cursor position. Contains several XSLT snippets.
• 🔴 Hypertext add-on -- Several of the above XML module's features, plus a limited implementation of the Zen Coding abbreviation engine. Requires the official Hypertext module.
• 🔴 Moonscript
• 🔴 Toml -- A small module with snippets.
• 🔴 Rust -- This thing has everything you could think of for working with the Rust language.

Functions

• Selected word marker allows you to select text in your buffer and all occurrences of that word will be surrounded by a box-indicator.
• Brian's common functions dead link
• Folding Key Commands
• Math - Replace selected equation with its value
• Open terminal here (Linux/BSD)
• Open webpage or link
• Replace Posix time with date
• Combining close and unsplit
• Delete Lines
• Enclose functions
• Append a final newline to file
• Alternative save-strips-whitespace function
• Goto Symbol (filtered list)
• Quick "find next" for words under the cursor
• C/C++: completion with clang++
• C/C++: automatic indentation with uncrustify
• Highlight trailing whitespace dead link
• Stats shows line, word, and character counts
• Switch to previous buffer (z-order) switches to the most recently used buffer, not the previous buffer in the buffer list.
• Control+Tab option: navigate buffers in MRU order
• Import default session allows you to import the default, previous session into the current session.

Themes

• 150+ Base-16 themes
• A Theme creator Web page Edit and generate your TextAdept theme(s)

Collection of Modifications, ~/.textadept

• rgieseke's common module
• Alejandro's common module dead link
• Brian's ~/.textadept/ folder dead link
• Mitchell's ~/.textadept/
• Alejandro's ~/.textadept/ dead link
• Gabriel's tweaks

Theming

• Line number margin for large files
• Fontsize
• Distraction Free Mode
• Adjust line number margin on zoom
• Change statusbar color

Snippets

• Library
• Extra -- A module for adding snippets/changes to languages on Textadept, without having to write modules for each one. dead link
  • Alternative link (unconfirmed) [https://github.com/abaez/ta-extra.git\]
• Load snippets in directories -- A replacement for the textadept.snippets.paths feature from Textadept 11 that was removed starting in Textadept 12.

Articles, Guides, and Write-ups

• Beautify Textadept
• Textadept and Snippets
• Textadept Language Lexers
• Textadept Modules
• Textadept's Userhome
• Review: Textadept dead link
• Textadept is fun to use and hack - Part 1

Miscellaneous

• Easy entry of ISO-Latin-1 characters with Textadept
• Locale dependent key shortcuts
• Find/Replace
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Linux / BSD Desktop integration (freedesktop.org .desktop file)
• Stupid shell trick _dead link_for launching Textadept, among other GUI programs, from the console.
• Viewer mode
• Send selected text to tmux to work with a REPL from within TextAdept
• How to open Textadept in wait-mode, that is, open a file in a new instance of Textadept, wait for it to be closed, and then quit Textadept.

Notes and Scripts for Old Versions

Stuff Only Working for 10.x

• Migrating to Textadept 11

Modules

• George's module collection -- A collection of my most frequently used modules, from a simple line centering utility to a reasonably complete macro facility.
• Lua pattern find -- Brings back Textadept's Lua pattern searches and toggles between them and regular expression searches.
• Enhanced Show Style -- Modify the "show style" tooltip to display the names of characters (code points) and the bytes that actually appear in the saved version of the file.

Themes

• Black

Lexers

• Lexer snippets

Miscellaneous

• A folding exercise
• How to close a file by double-clicking in its tab - how to add a new custom event to textadept.c

Stuff Only Working for 9.x

• Migrating to Textadept 9

Miscellaneous

• Conveniently search for UTF-8 codepoints in regex.

Stuff Only Working for 8.x

• Migrating to Textadept 9

Modules

• Version control -- A rudimentary version control module that supports basic VCS features from within Textadept.
• Multiedit -- Better multi selection navigation/editing (sublimeish)

Stuff Only Working for 7.x

• Migrating to Textadept 9

Language Modules

• A group of unsupported modules (including Adeptsenses) for Java, PHP, RHTML, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails can be found here

Modules

• Adeptsense - code autocompletion and documentation.

Miscellaneous

• Keybord map like screen utility

Stuff Only Working for 6.x

• Migrating to Textadept 7

Themes

• Solarized
• Green Mango
• Diogo Dark

Stuff Only Working for 5.x

• Migrating to Textadept 6

Language Modules

• Javascript -- Provides adeptsense autocompletion for several DOM methods and a subset of jQuery.

Themeing

• More fold markers

Stuff Only Working for 3.x and 4.x

• Migrating to Textadept 5
• Migrating to Textadept 4

Language Modules

• PKGBUILD module

Modules

• Load "Common" modules
• Zen-coding-style hypertext snippets
• XML editing utilities
• C-Style
• Multi-Edit
• Line Wrap

Functions

• Function Selector - Manage lua functions with a filtered list
• Rectangular selection
• Insert Filename
• quote enclose and add a comma to each line of selected text

Themes

• Classic Themes
• Alaran-Dark

Snippets

• HTML

Miscellaneous

• Instructions for portable cross-platform usage