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Lua

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Average annotated difficulty: 3.8/5 across 23,403 issues.
8% of 23,403 time estimates are one day or less.

About Lua

A small, embeddable scripting language from Brazil (1993), used to script games and editors — Roblox, Neovim and Redis extensions among them.

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HTML export opens a span per character for system messages Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10974 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2026
bug: openUniverseUsecase_data_loss.headless.lua calls Universe:new positionally Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 94/100

codymikol/multiverse.nvim#320 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
CI: the Windows build script reports success after a failed compile Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10967 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
bug: syslog error messages run together with the underlying error (missing separator) Open

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

apache/apisix#13973 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Require CI checks before merging into master Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

Questie/QuestieDB#27 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Good First Issue: Check behavior of the original game with respect to large toilets. Open

Good First Issue

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

CorsixTH/CorsixTH#3549 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
macOS下查找brew::ncurse失败 Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

xmake-io/xmake#7786 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026
TMapViewManager::slot_viewClosed() can never clean up after a destroyed map view Open

mapper bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10956 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
The detached window's toggle-toolbar action is never added to any menu Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10951 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
A detached window's "Show Toolbar" menu item starts out of step with its toolbar Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10950 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Package Manager shows a blank details pane with no reason when the selected package is missing from the index Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10948 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
saveProfile() silently ignores a non-string first argument Open

bug Lua only

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10944 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
install(DIRECTORY ../3rdparty/lcf) ships the whole submodule with no FILES_MATCHING filter Open

bug

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10943 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Compile qt-tags-widget's single source into mudlet_core instead of adding it as a sub-project Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10942 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
"Replace blank lines with a space" turns the telnet posting-timer flush into a spurious one-space line Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10934 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Functional tests that create a first profile in a fresh config dir race the first-run interface tour Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10932 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
The connection dialog still logs "Keychain returned empty password" on a branch the lookup chain cannot reach Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10927 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
The command-line translation lookup swallows every failure it can have Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 80/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10922 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
The connection dialog does not scroll the automatically picked profile into view on the "All games" tab Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10919 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
docs/libmudlet-widgets-report.md no longer matches the tree Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10910 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Reattaching a profile from a detached window always appends it at the end of the tab bar Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10909 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
IRC window renders server-sent nicknames, channel names, mode arguments and error text as HTML Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 90/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10907 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
A corrupt lua-function-list.json fails silently: autocompletion is just empty Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10906 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
update-autocompletion workflow attaches its check run to the wrong commit Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10905 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Window-creation functions disagree on how they refuse: some return nil, others false Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10903 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
A line waiting behind an unterminated OSC is not flushed when the network pause arrives, so a prompt stalls Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10897 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Redesigned settings dialog is still entirely English in Czech, a 99 % complete locale Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10880 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Settings dialog: the Editor page clips the "Could not update themes" error, and the package-manager heading elides to "Str..." Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10879 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Windows: prepareSharedDictionary() passes swapped and wrong filenames to sanitizeUtf8Path() Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10864 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
cTelnet::loadReplayChunk() writes out of bounds when a replay read fails Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10860 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Corner Analysis brake value stays at 0% when cphys returns zero brake pressure Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

tobi/ac-tracer#9 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Starter UI misses Char.MaxStats, leaving a new player with only an "Enemy 0%" bar Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10857 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
[Eco] Egg Config Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

pterodactyl/game-eggs#634 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Remind users to continue submitting data Open

Feature Request

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100

Questie/QuestieTrace#33 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
host_pool:ndpi Timeseries issues one full-scan query per L7 protocol instead of a single grouped query Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

ntop/ntopng#10965 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Fade survives up to a second after a floating terminal closes on process exit Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

TaDaa/vimade#104 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
darktable.gui.libs.snapshots.take_snapshot() will silently fail if darktable.gui.libs.snapshots.max_snapshots() exist. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

darktable-org/luadocs#42 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
documentSymbol requests use the current buffer instead of the attached buffer (including retries) Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

SmiteshP/nvim-navic#174 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
dtutils.string: build_substitute_list errors when a metadata field (e.g. rights) has been removed Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

darktable-org/lua-scripts#716 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Crash on quit when focus returns to a command line whose profile is gone Open

bug OS:macOS

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10827 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Add Wago Upload Open

CI

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

Questie/QuestieTrace#27 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
bug: syslog plugin crashes with nil-index error instead of returning an error when logger init fails Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

apache/apisix#13969 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
newproxy() without an argument reports a missing parameter Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

EmmyLuaLs/emmylua-analyzer-rust#1249 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
mathml-SE depends on global Lua variable i and can crash in convert_tounicode_to_utf8 Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

latex3/luamml#32 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Encountered Fatal Error Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 64/100

xournalpp/xournalpp#7761 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Add H1 in auto completion msg Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

obsidian-nvim/obsidian.nvim#966 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Remove unused AutoTableUpdates NPC flag corrections Open

Module - Database Refactoring

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

Questie/Questie#7844 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
`LS_SELECT_DEDENT` removes interior whitespace from characterwise selections Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

L3MON4D3/LuaSnip#1452 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Docs window overlaps the completion menu because positioning uses the requested float geometry instead of Neovim's clamped (rendered) one. Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

hrsh7th/nvim-cmp#2232 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Add a simple wrapper around token.set_lua Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

latex3/latex2e#2191 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 16, 2026

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