Lexers bundled with modules?

[jugglerchris]

I have a module (textadept-vi), and would like to include some lexers with it (to use with buffers containing compiler errors or grep output, for example - not things normally considered languages). Is that possible? From the documentation it looks like lexers have to be in ~/.textadept/lexers/ - I can copy or add symlinks, but that makes it harder to install.

Or can I include lexers with a module (e.g. any lexers directory under package.path or modules/foo/lexers, ...), or even generate it programmatically (lexers.foo = ... in the code)?

Thanks!

Chris

[orbitalquark]

It's not documented, but you can do something similar to what Textadept does[1]. For example: events.connect(events.BUFFER_NEW, function() buffer:private_lexer_call(_SCINTILLA.functions.load_lexer_library[1], '/path/to/lexers') end) In theory that should give every buffer access to your lexer directory. I haven't tested this beyond a simple call to confirm that it works initially. [1]: https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept/blob/c5aa8f8dec9611828b6972bc1a72cc8571eab36a/init.lua#L337

[jugglerchris]

Thanks Mitchell - that works fine.