Renoise Scripting Terminal And Editor?

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How to Enable the Scripting Developer Tools in Renoise

By default Renoise has all the scripting stuff hidden to keep things as easy as possible for those who don’t want to mess around with code. If you want to write scripts, the first thing you have to do is enable the hidden development tools that are built into Renoise. This can be done by:

Launching the Renoise executable with the argument “–scripting-dev”

Opening Renoise’s config.xml file from the preferences folder, and set the ShowScriptingDevelopmentTools property to “true”. This way, you don’t have to pass the above mentioned argument all the time. If you don’t know where to find the Renoise preference folder, open Renoise and click on “Help” → “Show Preferences Folder…”

Enabling this option will add a new main menu entry “Tools” (or add new entries there if it already exists). In the “Tools” menu you will find:

“Reload All Tools”: This will force a reload of all installed and running scripting tools (extensions). This can be handy when adding new tools by hand or when changing them.

“Scripting Console & Editor”: This is the main developing scripting tool. It allows you to:
Evaluate scripts or commands in realtime with a small terminal (command-line)
Watch any script’s output (all "print"s and errors from scripts will be redirected here)
Create, view and edit Lua, text, and XML files that will make up tools / extensions for Renoise.

Have a look at !Introduction.txt in the XRNX code repository for more info.

https://code.google.com/p/xrnx/