Estrela Editor

Estrela Editor is our wxLua-based editor primarly serving as Luxinia IDE, of course it can be used for any Lua coding. It has code completion, api tooltips and is (open-source/free). Hosted on SourceForge. Estrela has its origins in a wxLua sample by J. Winwood & John Labenski.

Paul Kulchenko has extended Estrela and turned it into ZeroBrane Studio. Estrela and ZBStudio ? are essentially the same editor now, with ZBStudio ? leading the future.

Simply grab the latest-snapshot from git, it will include required binaries, however all relevant files are pure lua:

zbstudio github repository (more updates)

sourceforge git repository

Where is estrela.exe?

Use zbstudio.exe from now on
Copy EstrelaEditor ?.ini to ZeroBraneStudio ?.ini in your HOME directory, to keep old project and file history
As zbstudio doesn't load all tools and specs (cg,glsl...) by default, you should create "cfg/user.lua" and copy the contents of cfg/estrela.cfg in it

Tutorials

Features

written in Lua, so easily customizable
automatically loads several 'plugin' like classes
- specs: file syntax, lexer, keywords
- apis: for code-completion and tool-tips
- interpreters: how a project is run (e.g. starting luxinia, lua commandline, or integrated lua shell)
- config: contains style and basic editor settings
- tools: additional tools, e.g. cg compiler, dx fxc compiler
lua-shell to directly test code snippets
auto-completion for functions, keywords...
function tips
function list in file (quick jump to)
function call highlighting
project file browser (create new files in selected subdirectory)
experimental type/class guessing for auto-completion
different editor styles possible