# MinetestIDE
This is wintermute's working & wonderful Minetest IDE, based on ZeroBrane Studio!
> Dear Minetest-Community,
>
> I am happy to announce that the thing nobody waited for, and one may actually use and like, is ready.
> We can hope that this lowers the burden of developing mods and brings fun into programming.
> Minetest lives and dies with its Mods, so for Minetest to survive and to strive for better content, one thing is inevitable: an environment which produces code. While in the past one may have written mods in notepad.exe, Notepad++, Vim or Emacs, we can now strive for unity--one experience across Mac, Linux and Windows. The ZeroBrane Studio, a lightweight, easy-to-learn, highly-customizable piece of Free Software, allows for this [after some modding of the program itself].
>
> MinetestIDE provides not only keyword highlighting for Lua, but also excellent code completion enriched with the wisest comments from celeron55 and the community.
It unites, in a heroic effort, the dev.minetest.net wiki and the Minetest Lua Modding API Reference. This was possible due to ZeroBrane Studio being highly modable, having many parts written in Lua.
>
> *-wintermute [edited by poikilos for spelling, grammar, and clarification]*
## Examples
Try to type these examples:
`minetest.get_worldpath():lower():reverse():upper():len()`
`minetest.get_meta(minetest.get_player_by_name("wintermute"):get_look_dir():multiply({x = 2, y = -3, z = 4}):get_inventory():get_width()`
## Installation
(if you are using Linux, run `bash install.sh` instead)
1. Visit the [Download Site](http://studio.zerobrane.com/download?not-this-time), then download and install the release for your operating system.
2. Copy all directories & files from MinetestIDE/zbstudio to the ZeroBrane Studio root directory (Linux: `/opt/zbstudio`).
3. (optional) go in to interpreters and change (line 18) the command line option to run Minetest on your OS. This allows you to start Minetest from inside the IDE. The current configuration assumes global installation on Linux.
## Disclaimer
The information used for auto-completion was written by me--mistakes are not only possible, but highly probable. I have no problem with including fixes from other persons. Based on the feedback of the people and the necessity for improvements, I will decide whether to spend time improving the comment texts, the descriptions of return values and the arguments or move my attention to bigger projects. -wintermute
## Authors
* Some content is inspired by or derived from lua-users.org, dev.minetest.net, or lua_api.txt.md.
* - Sample Code: [MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT); text/media: [Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (see )
* - Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0
* [lua_api.txt.md](https://notabug.org/pgimeno/Gists/src/minetest--lua_api.md/lua_api.md) - celeron55 and others
* There may be content copied from ZeroBrane Studio and therefore under the MIT License and copyright (c) ZeroBrane LLC
* All content not from sources above is released under the included fallback license (see included [LICENSE](https://github.com/poikilos/MinetestIDE/blob/master/LICENSE) file in your favorite text editor); and copyright 2015 wintermute (post-2015 changes are copyright poikilos 2019-present, and any other authors listed in the git commit history such as at ).
## Project Status
*wintermute* left this to be decided, so I (poikilos) am maintaining it for now. This is a side project, so please submit issues as [pull requests](https://github.com/poikilos/MinetestIDE/pulls) if possible--otherwise use the [Issues](https://github.com/poikilos/MinetestIDE/issues) page. Hopefully wintermute will submit any changes he made after the initial release.
The initial release was version 1.0 (July 27, 2015) on the minetest.net forum post .