Spoofax-Lua: a Lua Eclipse plugin based on Spoofax

What is it?

Spoofax-Lua is an Eclipse plugin for editing Lua files, based on Spoofax. It's been made for educational/testing purposes, so don't expect too much.

How to use?

Install Spoofax nightly by following the instructions here, but use http://www.lclnet.nl/update/nightly as the update site URL.

When finished, import this project into your workspace and press ctrl+alt+B to build it. After this .lua files should open in this plugin.

Features

• Completion and reference resolving of:
  • global variables that are assigned anywhere in the file
  • local variables in the current scope
• Completion of:
  • table fields
  • function arguments
• Warns about:
  • incorrect placement of break statements
  • use of unassigned globals
  • unused globals
  • unused locals
• Folding of functions
• Rudimentary outline view (only when deployed)
• Syntax tested on more than 3650 Lua files

Missing features / To do

• Checks for obvious (type) errors
• Multi-file analysis (e.g., dofile, require)
• Debugging (not planned)
• Much more (not planned)