Overview

lua-mode is an Emacs major mode for editing Lua. The development has moved to github, so update your bookmarks if you still look for new releases at luaforge.

If you have a problem or a suggestion about lua-mode, please, let me know about it via issue tracker.

INSTALLATION

MANUAL INSTALLATION

1. Grab a zipball¹ or pick any commit you like on github:

• last stable release
• current development snapshot

2. Add the following to your init-file:

• Make sure that lua-mode.el is on your load-path

    (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/lua-mode")

• Load lua-mode when visiting lua files automagically

    (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))

3. Byte-compile lua-mode if you like

USING EL-GET

Installing with el-get is as easy as

    (el-get-install 'lua-mode)

USAGE

lua-mode supports c-mode style formatting and sending of lines/regions/files to a Lua interpreter. An interpreter (see variable lua-default-application) will be started if you try to send some code and none is running. You can use the process-buffer (named after the application you chose) as if it were an interactive shell. See the documentation for comint.el for details.

Lua-mode also works with Hide Show minor mode (see hs-minor-mode).