Is it possible to completely pause a lua script to catch errors, etc..?
Kind of like in batch/dos you just type pause, then it waits for any key to be pressed.
Any possibility to do so in Lua?
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Looks like you can take some ideas from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5689566/keypress-event-in-lua – joeButler Jun 10 '15 at 09:51
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1You could issue OS `pause` command, but that's not portable. – Bartek Banachewicz Jun 10 '15 at 09:57
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1If `pause` is available, use `os.execute("pause")`. – Yu Hao Jun 10 '15 at 10:56
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Reading a character from standard input is a slightly more portable alternative I think. Though you may not actually have a standard input available to read from. – Etan Reisner Jun 10 '15 at 11:12
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2`io.write"Press Enter to continue...";io.read()` – Egor Skriptunoff Jun 10 '15 at 12:05
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See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1815163/lua-get-command-line-input-from-user. – lhf Jun 10 '15 at 12:32
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If the script is being developed then [debug.debug()](http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#6.10) might be a good alternative. Continue execution with `cont`. Note: Some Lua environments don't support all standard libraries.. – Tom Blodget Jun 10 '15 at 16:37