Originally Posted by Taraezor
I use TextEdit for Mac OSX. Has all the bells and whistles you need for a full blown IDE for LUA AddOn programming.
I.e. nothing.
Seriously, as a hobbyist it is thankfully refreshing from my point of view to NOT have version / change management issues and all this coloured stuff and auto completion happening in the "IDE". For me it would be overkill and take away the fun aspect. |
I thought that at first, too, but the colors help out a lot by allowing visual recognition to happen much faster. Autocompletion, while not always welcome, can easily increase the speed at which you crank out your code and helps out with the more tedious parts.
Version and change management are not strictly necessary, though. In fact, with ESOUI archiving all the older things, that serves as a rudimentary version control system itself.