[patrickg]

I really like Lua and hacking things in Lua, so this editor looks like its what I need. But there is one show stopper, that I have no idea how to avoid: scrolling horizontally on my Mac is terrible slow, and I have lots of files with long lines..

The author and the communtity around it is great, all questions that I had have been answered quickly. So every few months or so I download the newest package and look if anyting has changed meanwile.

[aandrieiev]

Just curious, did you file a bug report for this?

[patrickg]

Yes, I've had an exchange with the author about this, and he said, it might be possible to tweak this, but his is buried in some obsucure configuration.

[cup-of-tea]

What kind of file have such long lines? Have you considered a text editor that can wrap lines?

[nf05papsjfVbc]

Depending on how long the lines are, wrapping may turn out to be a pain in the neck because (part of) one or two lines take up the entire pane. So, though wrapping long lines works sometimes, it genuinely is impractical at other times. Also, like the other poster says, it's a matter of preference too. If someone likes to edit a line while having an eye on the lines below and above it, wrapping doesn't help.

[patrickg]

Data files and source code. Sure I have considered using line wrap, but I don't like it.

[cup-of-tea]

I've always avoided this by formatting source code to fit in 80 chars, using "long" data format where possible, and just not editing big data files interactively (I use sed or awk).

[shalabhc]

For another Lua based editor checkout howl.io

[patrickg]

No official support for Mac yet... Interesting anyways, thanks

[shalabhc]

See https://github.com/howl-editor/howl/issues/68#issuecomment-1... for instructions to build on OSX. The issues have since been ironed out afaik, but I haven't tested recently.