Provides alternative project support to the textadept editor.
The Textadept editor is cross platform and extremely fast. Although barebones, it is very extensible via lua. As I developer, I prefer an editor with speed over an editor with everything builtin. Nothing is more frustrating than to hit a character only to wait on the editor to respond. That's why I used Textadept as much as possible.
One pain point with Textadept is the project support. This module was designed to add basic project support to Textadept with these features:
- Project list
- Quick open
- Goto symbol within single file
- Cross platform (Linux / Windows, OS X should work but needs testing)
In the future, I plan to add the following:
- Goto definition (via tag file)
- Goto symbol with project (via tag file)
- Build commands
- Automatic linting
I currently use the quickopen tool on projects with over 34,000 files. It's extremely fast on my machine, but YMMV. I have not tested on any spindle drives, just SSDs.
First step is to clone this repo into your ~/.textadept/modules directory.
Next, add the below configuration to ~/.textadept/init.lua. Adapt to your environment as needed.
By default, the following key combinations are available:
- Alt-g: Goto symbol within file (based on ctags tagging setup below)
- Alt-o: Quick open within project
- Alt-p: Project selector to file quick open
Sample Configuration
local M = {}
M.project = require 'project'
keys['alt+g'] = function() M.project.goto_symbol() end
keys['alt+o'] = function() M.project.project_quickopen() end
keys['alt+p']= function() M.project.selectProject() end
M.project.projects = {
Project1 = {
types = {}, -- File extensions to include in quickopen, empty=all
exclude = {"/.git"}, -- Folders to exclude in quickopen
folders = { -- Folders to find files for quickopen
"~/dev/project1"
},
tagging = { -- file extension based with a default
default = "ctags --excmd=number --sort=yes --fields=+KS-sf -f -",
cs = "ctags --excmd=number --sort=yes --fields=+KS-sf -f -"
}
},
BigProject2 = {
types = {"cs","css","less","htm"},
exclude = {"/.git"},
folders = {
"~/dev/project2",
"~/dev/import/random1",
"~/dev/import/random2"
}
},
TextAdeptConf = {
build = {},
types = {},
exclude = {"/.git","/.hg","/docs"},
folders = {
"~/.textadept"
}
}
}
Goto Symbol within file
Quick open file within project
Goto Project
