Globals
Available system globals.
ARCH
global ARCH: string
The current platform tuple used for native modules loading, for example: "x86_64-linux", "x86_64-darwin", "x86_64-windows", etc...
ARGS
global ARGS: table<integer, string>
The command line arguments given to pragtical.
COMPAT_DISABLE_FIX_PATTERN
global COMPAT_DISABLE_FIX_PATTERN: boolean
DATADIR
global DATADIR: string
Directory that holds the editor lua sources and other data files.
DEFAULT_SCALE
global DEFAULT_SCALE: number
Default system scale.
EXEDIR
global EXEDIR: string
Directory where the editor executable resides.
EXEFILE
global EXEFILE: string
Full path of pragtical executable.
HOME
global HOME: string
Path to the users home directory.
LUAJIT
global LUAJIT: boolean
This is set to true if pragtical was compiled with luajit.
MOD_VERSION_MAJOR
global MOD_VERSION_MAJOR: integer
Same as application major version.
MOD_VERSION_MINOR
global MOD_VERSION_MINOR: integer
Same as application minor version.
MOD_VERSION_PATCH
global MOD_VERSION_PATCH: integer
Same as application patch version.
MOD_VERSION_STRING
global MOD_VERSION_STRING: string
Same as application version.
PATHSEP
global PATHSEP: string
Current platform path separator, usually / or \ on windows.
PLATFORM
global PLATFORM: string|"Android"|"Linux"|"Mac OS X"|"Windows"...(+1)
The current operating system.
SCALE
global SCALE: number
The current text or ui scale.
USERDIR
global USERDIR: string
Directory that holds the user configuration files, plugins, colors, etc...
VERSION
global VERSION: string
The application version.
bit
global bit: bit
Mike Pall bit operations library included on every Lua runtime for consistency with the patch https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/384 applied for newer Lua versions support.
See: https://bitop.luajit.org/
dirmonitor
global dirmonitor: dirmonitor
Functionality that allows to monitor a directory or file for changes using the native facilities provided by the current operating system for better efficiency and performance.
encoding
global encoding: encoding
Utilities for encoding detection and conversion.
global
global global: function
used to define a global variable
process
global process: process
Functionality that allows you to launch subprocesses and read or write to them in a non-blocking fashion.
regex
global regex: regex
Provides the base functionality for regular expressions matching.
renderer
global renderer: renderer
Core functionality to render or draw elements into the screen.
renwindow
global renwindow: renwindow
Functionality to create and manage windows.
shmem
global shmem: shmem
Functionality that allows to share data between processes.
system
global system: system
Utilites for managing current window, files and more.
thread
global thread: thread
Provides threading capabilities.
utf8
global utf8: table
utf8extra
global utf8extra: utf8extra
Additional utf8 support not provided by lua.