ta-config

Textadept config files

Yet another textadept config. This is especially made and tested for web development in php + html/css but hopefully could be dropped in to any use case. I have tried my best to make it similar to Atom/$ublime.

Features

• Tab switching with Ctrl+Tab
• Hot exit feature (remembers unsaved buffers on exit)
• Sets a dark theme (base16-default-dark)
• Sets tab as default
• Enables whitespace and wrap
• Adds right click menu to copy filename (under "Extra")
• Adds close tab on middle click*
• Creates or closes buffers on middle click or double click on empty space in tab bar (extremely convenient and fast)*
• Opens Find in Files result in new tab (unsplit view)*
• Highlights trailing whitespace at the end of lines
• Multi selection support to many keyboard shortcuts, such as delete lines, duplicate lines etc. (listed below in the Keyboard Shortcuts table)

* Some features require patching and compiling. It should work without patches, but then those features will not be available. See patches directory for details.

How to install/use

• Optional, but recommended: apply patches and install from source. Easy to follow instructions are provided in the patches/README.md.
• Or... install textadept from repo to use without patched features.
• For config, do either:

git clone --depth=1 https://notabug.org/reback00/ta-config.git ~/.textadept

or...

git clone --depth=1 https://notabug.org/reback00/ta-config.git
cd ta-config
mkdir -p ~/.textadept && cp -r {modules,themes,lexers,init.lua} ~/.textadept/

• Launch textadept and it should run with this config

For dark interface:

Edit/create this file:

• Linux: ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (sometimes can be ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine depending on distro)
• Windows: textadept-install-folder\share\themes\MS-Windows\gtk-2.0\gtkrc
• macOS: Textadept.app/Contents/Resources/share/themes/Gnome-Cupertino/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

with the following content:

style "custombg" {
bg[NORMAL] = "#555555"
fg[NORMAL] = "#BABABA"
}
widget "textadept*" style "custombg"

You can change the colors as you wish. bg[NORMAL] is background color and fg[NORMAL] is the text color in the interface. The color is in #BBGGRR format, not #RRGGBB. Idea from here.

For GTK+3: ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

#textadept * {
	background-color:#555555;
	color:#BABABA;
}
#textadept notebook {
	border:none;
}
#textadept trough {
	/* Set scrollbar background same as editor background */
	background-color:#272822;
}
#textadept slider {
	/* Set slider to be a bit brighter than default bg color set above */
	background-color:#888888;
}

See this color reference for instructions on how to use color.

For some features to work:

Patch the source code and build. See, patches directory for details.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+Tab	Switch between last used tabs.
Ctrl+Shift+Tab	Open list of recent / recently closed files.
Ctrl+Page up	Go to previous tab.
Ctrl+Page Down	Go to next tab.
Ctrl+Shift+K	Delete line(s). Supports multi selection, multi cursor.
Ctrl+D	Duplicate line(s). Supports multi selection, multi cursor.
Ctrl+P	Shows a list of possible commands.
Ctrl+G	Go to a line.
Ctrl+L	Select line(s).
Ctrl+J	JavaDoc/PHPDoc comment.

Events

These events are introduced by the patched compile:

• TAB_MIDDLE_CLICK: Runs when a tab is middle clicked.
• TAB_MIDDLE_CLICK_BLANK: Runs when middle clicked on blank space on tab bar.
• TAB_DOUBLE_CLICK_BLANK: Runs when double clicked on blank space on tab bar.

** Last tested in Textadept 10.8 under Linux 5.4 x86_64