Textadept

Textadept
Original author	Mitchell
Release	2007 (2007)
Stable release	13.0  / 1 July 2026 (1 July 2026)
Written in	C, C++, Lua
Operating system	Linux, BSD, Microsoft Windows, macOS
Type	Text editor
License	MIT
Website	orbitalquark.github.io/textadept
Repository	github.com/orbitalquark/textadept

Textadept is a free software minimalist text editor designed for computer programming. Distributed under the MIT license, it is written in C, C++ and Lua and is extensible using Lua. Textadept can use either a graphical user interface or a text-based user interface when running in a terminal window. Textadept uses the Scintilla editing component. Textadept's developer makes the curses wrapper library for Scintilla used by Textadept available separately.

Similar to Emacs, Textadept is deeply extensible; the Lua API has access to any subsystem of the program. Despite this, the developer states that one of his goals is for the C portion to not exceed 2000 lines of code and for the Lua portion to never exceed 4000 lines. When running in a graphical interface Textadept purposely does not save window size or position, leaving this up to the window manager.

See also

• List of text editors
• Comparison of text editors

External links

• Textadept home page
• Webupd8 review
• Free software directory entry
• Textredux, a module providing text-based interfaces for core Textadept functionality
• Textadept Language Lexers, Impression and tips on extending language support