Scratch

September 14, 2025 ยท View on GitHub

Treat untitled, unsaved, and typed buffers as scratch buffers.

Scratch buffers persist between sessions (e.g. closing and re-opening Textadept will re-open any scratch buffers) unless Textadept is in "no session" mode (the -n or --no-session flag was passed).

Install this module by copying it into your ~/.textadept/modules/ directory or Textadept's modules/ directory, and then putting the following in your ~/.textadept/init.lua:

local scratch = require('scratch')

scratch.enabled

Enable this module.

The default value is true.

scratch.scratch_directory

The directory to temporarily save scratch files to.

The default value is ~/.textadept/scratch/.