Module gui.command_entry
Textadept's Command entry.
Fields
entry_text: The text in the entry.
Overview
Access to the Lua state is available through this command entry. It is useful for debugging, inspecting, and entering buffer or view commands. If you try cause instability in Textadept's Lua state, you might very well succeed. Be careful.
Tab-completion for functions, variables, tables, etc. is available. Press the
Tab key to display a list of available completions. Use the arrow keys to
make a selection and press Enter to insert it.
Abbreviated commands for the buffer, view and gui are available. So
buffer:append_text('textadept') can be shortened to
append_text('textadept'). Please note print() calls
gui.print() and not Lua's print(). The latter can be
accessed with _G.print().
Extending
You can extend the command entry to do more than enter Lua commands. An
example of this is incremental search. See
modules/textadept/find.lua for the implementation.
Functions
| focus () | Focuses the command entry. |