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orbitalquark / textadept

Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and remarkably extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers.
https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept
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Cannot load built-in modules on macOS #525

Closed achou11 closed 2 months ago

achou11 commented 2 months ago

I was updating to the latest release of the app (12.4) and after doing the basic installation tasks, I noticed that I get the following warning when trying to open application:

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This happens when my init file requires any module that has a native .so file. I've only tested file_diff and spellcheck since I was following the example from https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/manual.html#installation.

I'm aware of the macOS "right-click" trick to bypass the warning, but not sure how that would work for these kinds of files since they're not really executables. I vaguely remember a CLI command that does the same thing but that seems tedious and not ideal when potentially working with several modules.

I can't remember if this was an issue before - I'm inclined to say that it wasn't but it's been a while since I last opened the app.

Reproduction steps:

  1. Install Textadept and the extra modules (place the modules in $HOME/.textadept/modules/ directory)

  2. Update init.lua with the following:

    require('file_diff')
  3. Open Textadept

Textadept version: 12.4 OS: macOS 14.4.1 (Sonoma)

orbitalquark commented 2 months ago

Thanks for the report. macOS has been getting more and more overzealous with these types of things. I think you have to go into the security settings and click a button to bypass it, like you would when trying to run an application like Textadept from a "developer [that] cannot be verified". I should probably add a FAQ entry for this.

achou11 commented 2 months ago

I think you have to go into the security settings and click a button to bypass it

Ah yes this worked. Unforunate but not your fault 😄 Can close this.