Re: "What is the best way to write a plugin in Lua and C?"

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— https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/35176/how-to-get-the-lua-version-of-neovim

I know its neovim, but at least something...

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2023-07-02 · 3 years ago

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🐦 Arkaeriit [OP] · 2023-07-02 at 09:37:

@stack Thanks a lot. This works in normal Vim as well. Unlike Lua's builtin _VERSION, this also shows the patch level which is exactly what we I need to download a Lua version.

🐦 Arkaeriit [OP] · 2023-07-02 at 10:07:

I managed to make it work. Thanks again @stack.

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🐦 Arkaeriit:

What is the best way to write a plugin in Lua and C? — I wrote a plugin to use Vim as a hex editor. As there is quite a bit of computation to do I prefered not to do them in Vimscript. As the hex editor will manipulate arbitrary data and not text, Lua seemed a better choice than Python as the strings don't need to contain only Unicode characters. As some functions do heavy computation, I wrote them in C for the very substantial speed boost. Unfortunately, compiling the C librairy is not...

💬 3 comments · 2023-07-02 · 3 years ago