What code editor/environment are people using?

If your question is 'should you use eclipse', I would say it depends. If your situation needs automatic(or easy) builds, the answer is yes. I have had some problems with Elise's Lua editor, but I still can lunch the files in the Lua Sript Editor. The rest is just easy to build with the ant support.

If I am not being clear, let me know...
Kamal

Kamal,
I'm writing with Coda which does have SVN built in, but I'm not currently using it. Should I investigate this further?

I am using a combination of LuaScript editor, Eclipse and Ant(am a java develper, so I have SVN, Eclipse and Ant). This way, it is easy for me to run the ant tool after I make a change to my code and it will create my xxx.lrdevplugin directory for me and copies it over to my deployment direcotry. What is even better is that I have two different builds for Mac and PC, and the build takes that hasle even one step further away.

I can vouch that the emacs lua-mode works well.

If you download the lua installer for Windows, it includes the SciTE editor as part of the package. Its basic but it doesn't use much memory. What more do you need?

The package also includes the lua documentation and compiler. Download the Lightroom SDK, DebugView ( technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx ) and you have a functional development environment.

There is an Eclipse plugin for lua that is good too for those already using Eclipse. Check it out:
http://luaeclipse.luaforge.net/

For TextMate you will have to grab the Lua "bundle" from their Subversion server. Once you do that it works a treat.

Remember you can do one of 3 things. 1) Right-click > Open With. 2) Drag the file onto the Dock icon 3) Get Info on the file type and change which App it (or all of them) open with by default.

Good call Eric.. Free is always good.

I'd been using Taco HTML Edit, because it runs as projects and will open .lrwebengine files on Mac (i hate renaming them, just to open them)

I've mailed the link to Matthew Campagna to..

Thanks also the Jeffrey Friedl for the ./luac hint.. Sheesh.

Also BBEdit (Text Wrangler's Big Brother) and TextMate support Lua