Recommend a Lua IDE?

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Hi wondering if there is a recommended IDE for Lua programming for WoW addons.

Anyone recommend one?

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Any text editor you’re comfortable with preferably with lua syntax highlighting. Many use NotePad++ which is a powerful free option. I use TextPad but there are also others.

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I can highly recommend the combination of NotePad++ and NPPExec to run arbitrary code for testing.

If you need help with the setup, please contact me in-game as Kaldara#11970.

I use the 64-bit versions of both (must match up).

Those and Lua53 make for a solid IDE-like environment.

I’ve also modified the language file for Lua in Notepad++ to remove the os and io routines, consolidate all “vanilla” Lua commands, operators, keywords, etc. into a single category and then I put the replacement, non-standard Lua routines that Blizzard defined in one of the now-unused keyword categories and every API call I make into the other now-unused keyword category with slightly different appearances.

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Thanks Fizzlemez and Ehiztari, will see what I can get going :).