Open Source Lua Text Editors

ecode is a lightweight multi-platform code editor designed for modern hardware with a focus on responsiveness and performance. It has been developed with the hardware-accelerated eepp GUI, which provides the core technology for the editor. The project comes as the first serious project using the eepp GUI, and it's currently being developed to improve the eepp GUI library as part of one of its main objectives.

A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, and extremely extensible text editor written in C, and Lua, adapted from lite.

glow.nvim is a Neovim plugin that displays rendered Markdown previews directly inside the editor. It uses the Glow command-line renderer to present formatted documents in a floating terminal window. Users can preview the current buffer or provide the path to another Markdown file through the Glow command. The preview window can be closed through a command, the Q key, or the Escape key. Configuration options control the rendering style, border, width, height, size ratios, pager behavior, binary path, and installation directory. The plugin supports installation through vim-plug, packer.nvim, lazy.nvim, and LuaRocks-compatible workflows. The repository was archived in March 2025 and no longer receives bug fixes or new features.

A text editor.

A fast, minimalist, and remarkably extensible cross-platform text editor. Textadept’s user interface is sleek and simple. Relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, the editor consists of less than 2000 lines of C and C++ code, and less than 4000 lines of Lua code. Textadept runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. It also has a terminal version, which is ideal for work on remote machines. Textadept is an ideal editor for programmers who want endless extensibility without sacrificing speed or succumbing to code bloat and featuritis. The editor gives you complete control over the entire application using the Lua programming language. Everything from moving the caret to changing menus and key bindings on the fly to handling core events is possible. Its potential is vast.

Refurbished Scintilla.orgs/SciTE with some additional patches. -- Features -- - Full MinGW and GTK SDKs Autocomplete.(190+) - Do system scripting (bash, applescript, cmd, powershell, perl, j/vbscript, awk) - Examine all sorts of data files (sql, regedit, mib, xml, yaml, json, vcard ...) - Review difference and patch files - Create makefiles (gnu make / cmake) - Edit html, css and config files (with calltips) - Describe circuits in vhdl and spice. ... - And finally; read & write source code: - [ Syntax highlighted ] - go, vala, pike, swift, flash, ch, rust - [ Calltip assisted ] - c/cpp11, js&jQuery, python, php, ruby, lua, c#, java, perl --Others-- - Restructured config files with inline docs - Scriptable via lua Extension. - Provides theming, a customizeable toolbar, a sidebar with a File Browser and a cleaned up options Menu. --- Summary --- Enjoy your vlc for sourceCode lecture ;) (30Langs)

Write and run pure Lua code. This is a great tool to test out your Lua knowledge or learn how to program.

Far Manager is a program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems. Far Manager works in text mode and provides a simple and intuitive interface for performing most of the necessary actions: viewing files and directories; editing, copying and renaming files; and many other actions. Far Manager has a multi-language, easily configurable interface. File system navigation is made easier through the use of color highlighting and sort groups. The functionality of Far Manager is greatly extended by external DLL modules — plugins (made possible by a special set of interfaces — the Plugins API). For example: archive support, FTP client, temporary panel and network browser are all implemented as plugins included in the standard distribution of Far.

FiatLux is a programmer's text editor written in C++ and wxWidgets. Can be extend with lua.

Aims to wrap as many as possible API calls needed to create useful and rich plugins for notepad++ under LUA scripting, so everybody can build their own plugins for NPP.

lite is a lightweight, minimalist text editor written in Lua. Designed for simplicity and extensibility, it provides a clean interface and core editing features with low resource usage. Its entire UI and logic are written in Lua, making it highly hackable and customizable. It’s aimed at developers who prefer speed and minimalism over feature bloat.