Textadept Portable

A launcher for the Textadept editor.

Textadept Portable can run from a portable USB drive without installing anything. The .textadept directory is placed in TextadeptPortable\Data.

Download

https://github.com/downloads/rgieseke/textadept-portable/TextadeptPortable.zip

Note that this is only the launcher, you need to download the current version of Textadept from http://foicica.com/textadept/download and unpack and copy it to TextadeptPortable\App\Textadept.

Building the launcher yourself

See below for the necessary steps for building the Textadept Portable launcher. See http://www.portableapps.com and http://portableapps.com/development/portableapps.com_format for an explanation of the format.

To simplify building the following two scripts create a build environment for Textadept Portable and compile the launcher:

Run on Linux/Unix (or download the files from the web and unzip Textadept): downloads.sh

Then run on Windows: build.bat

Finally a zip can be created (Linux shell script): pack.sh

NSIS

Download NSIS Portable: http://portableapps.com/apps/development/nsis_portable

Current version: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/portableapps/NSISPortable_2.46_English.paf.exe

Directory Structure

Create directory structure:

TextadeptPortable
    App
    + AppInfo
    + AppName
    + DefaultData
    Data
    Other
    + Help
      + Images
    + Source

Textadept Portable

The source code for the Portable Launcher is in TextadeptPortable\Data\Other\Source

Copy icons and rename them to TextadeptPortable\App\AppInfo (see build.bat).

Build launcher

Run makensis on TextadeptPortable\Other\Source\TextadeptPortable.nsi