Textadept

{{short description|Programmer's text editor using Scintilla}}

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| author = Mitchell

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| released = {{Start date and age|2007}}

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| programming language = C, C++, Lua

| operating system = Linux, BSD, Microsoft Windows, macOS

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| genre = Text editor

| license = MIT

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| website = {{URL|https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept}}

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Textadept is a free software minimalist text editor designed for computer programming. Distributed under the MIT license, it is written in C, C++ and Lua and is extensible using Lua.{{cite web|url=http://yfl.bahmanm.com/Members/ttmrichter/software-reviews/textadept-review|title=Review: Textadept|access-date=2015-02-09|archive-date=2018-09-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909112042/http://yfl.bahmanm.com/Members/ttmrichter/software-reviews/textadept-review|url-status=dead}} Textadept can use either a graphical user interface or a text-based user interface when running in a terminal window. Textadept uses the Scintilla editing component. Textadept's developer makes the curses wrapper library for Scintilla used by Textadept available separately.{{cite web|url=http://foicica.com/scinterm/download|title=Scinterm|access-date=2015-02-27|archive-date=2016-04-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406114950/http://foicica.com/scinterm/download|url-status=dead}}

Similar to Emacs, Textadept is deeply extensible; the Lua API has access to any subsystem of the program. Despite this, the developer states that one of his goals is for the C portion to not exceed 2000 lines of code and for the Lua portion to never exceed 4000 lines. When running in a graphical interface Textadept purposely does not save window size or position, leaving this up to the window manager.