Engine:CCMD lua.lua edit

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Runs a Lua statement in a Lua runtime.

print("fred")

Arguments

• name - (none)
• value - the verbatim text of the Lua statement or statements to be run

Associations

• Is by default placed in the 'lua' context.
• Is the default command for the 'lua' context.
• Does not have its own command name in 'lua'.

Details

Can be used to run commands as though were directly in a Lua console, if the first statement is not engine command, variable or alias in the 'lua' context.

While the 'lua' context has the ability to hold variables and aliases, they cannot be created from script as the Lua context has no 'alias', 'set' or 'var' type commands added to the context.

Examples

Default values

Below, 'exit' is a 'lua' context command which simply switches to the 'global' context. It is not run in a Lua runtime.

context lua
print(1 + 2)
exit

Notes

• While 'lua_edit' is intended make console Lua commands easy to run, can allow scripts and other types of macros to avoid lots of situations where complex logic would otherwise be required, by simply switching to the 'lua' context and then running a series of single line lua chunks.