Is there a way to interactively program lua for ardour?
For instance, open a lua shell from an editor or the CLI and I can issue LUA commands for the
currently interactive GUI session?
That would help me a lot to develop scripts interactively and not have to run the script every time.
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I think in Edit? Or one of the main menus there’s the scripting window. You can select one of the scripts so it opens in the editor above. You can run scripts with the run button. When you edit the script externally, you can change anything in the scripting windows text editor so the revert button is enabled, which just reloads the file with your external changes. Then you can press run again.
Best way I found, but it’s not good, unfortunately. I’m interested in a better solution, too 
Typing “emacs lua” at a search engine gives
Emacs has a major mode called lua-mode specifically for editing Lua code, which supports features like automatic code indentation and sending code to a Lua interpreter. You can install lua-mode via package managers like MELPA or el-get.