Textadept menus

[sigzero]

This question has a couple of layers.

Can a new top-level menu item be added or does it need to be a sub-menu of an existing top level?

I would like to create a few commands to check my Perl scripts (perlcheck, perltidy, and perlcritic). How would I do that in light of the first question?

My Lua is generally non-existent, so sorry.

[orbitalquark]

You can create a top-level menu. If you want it to appear after the "Tools" menu (before the "Buffer" menu), you'd put something like this in your *~/.textadept/init.lua*: local function run_perl_command(cmd) if not buffer.filename then return end -- nothing to do textadept.run.run(string.format('%s "%s"', cmd, buffer.filename)) end table.insert(textadept.menu.menubar, 5, {title = "Perl", {"perlcheck", function() run_perl_command('perlcheck') end}, {"perltidy", function() run_perl_command('perltidy') end}, {"perlcritic", function() run_perl_command('perlcritic') end}, }) I haven't tested this, but that's the general idea.