Scrollbar chrome makes me instantly lose interest.

If there was a screenshot without this (is there a terminal version?), I would regain interest. Screenshots are important especially to people like me who may or may not care. They're the fastest way for a potential user to answer the question: is this worth caring about at all.

Some questions you can answer with screenshots:

- Does it run on my platform?

- Are there any glaringly ugly things about it that will be a dealbreaker?

- Is it more beautiful/cool than what I'm already using?

- To what extent can it be customized?

- What kind of people are using it (if you have user screenshots)?

> Scrollbar chrome makes me instantly lose interest.

Scrollbar issue is with my XFCE theme, not textadept.

> If there was a screenshot without this (is there a terminal version?), I would regain interest

Gnome terminal, windowed: http://i.imgur.com/Dfh6o.png Gnome terminal, fullscreen: http://i.imgur.com/6yoil.png

> Does it run on my platform?

Runs on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

> Are there any glaringly ugly things about it that will be a dealbreaker?

I don't see any.

> Is it more beautiful/cool than what I'm already using?

Well, it depends on what you find more beautiful/cool :) For example, it's similar to my current GVim setup: http://i.imgur.com/djaLS.png

> To what extent can it be customized?

It seems that most of it is written in Lua (except the core), so it seems pretty extensible http://foicica.com/textadept/11_Scripting.html

> What kind of people are using it (if you have user screenshots)?

Can't help you with this :)

Does this support tiled windows in a terminal like Vim or Emacs? Relying on a terminal multiplexer to provide that is less than ideal I think.

Looks good otherwise. Not to my taste, but it is refreshing to see a new text editor that actually seems like it was written by someone who understands the variety of use-cases of text editors.

I can't point you to a screenshot, but scrollbars are easy to hide:

buffer.v_scroll_bar = false