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Text Editors
While IDEs offer a complete environment, as you develop, your reliance on IDEs may vary. Many
people reach a point where they feel that they no longer require an IDE, but a very good text editor
instead. There are some wonderful free and paid text editors for both Mac OS X and Windows. Since
Lua is such a simple language, in theory, a very simple Notepad-like text editor is all you need to
write code. However, it always helps to have syntax highlighting, code folding, and ability to jump
between functions, dynamic debugging, and so on.
Notepad++
 URL : http://notepad-plus-plus.org
 Price : Free
 Platforms : Windows
This is a Windows-only editor; it is open source and quite powerful, and is updated on a regular
basis. It features syntax highlighting, code folding, and multitab editing (as shown in Figure 14-4 ).
It has support for several languages other than Lua, and it can be extended with plug-ins.
Figure 14-4. Notepad++