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Re: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 09, 2020, 6:51 PM UTC

p4bl0 wrote: post #44

akavel wrote: post #4

If you are interested in small Lua-based text editors, I advise you to take a look at Textadept: https://foicica.com/textadept/ . Specifically as to minimalism: "Relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, the editor consists of less than 2000 lines of C code and less than 4000 lines of Lua code." I believe this is a limit that the editor's author self-imposed and keeps to it with an impressive st…

You might also be interested in kilo: https://github.com/antirez/kilo

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Re: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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Post by taigi100 » Sat, May 09, 2020, 6:51 PM UTC

I have to mention, I do love how this looks! I'd be looking in using it as my daily driver for quick / short text edits and maybe small projects!

Since I really like the looks of it, in case you do need help with keeping it maintained, I would love to help! Feel free to contact me at contact@taigi100.com

Good luck and I hope it all goes well with this text editor!

Re: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 09, 2020, 6:54 PM UTC

akavel wrote: post #4

If you are interested in small Lua-based text editors, I advise you to take a look at Textadept: https://foicica.com/textadept/ . Specifically as to minimalism: "Relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, the editor consists of less than 2000 lines of C code and less than 4000 lines of Lua code." I believe this is a limit that the editor's author self-imposed and keeps to it with an impressive st…

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Re: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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Post by grep_it » Sat, May 09, 2020, 6:57 PM UTC

Really cool project! At what point in the development did you start to use lite as your editor to develop it? I'm sure that was a fun milestone to hit.

Re: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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Post by stephc_int13 » Sat, May 09, 2020, 6:58 PM UTC

Very impressive.

Font Rendering does not seem to be as crisp as needed for a text editor. (on Windows at least)

I know Sublime is using DirectWrite to render fonts on Win32, this might be something to explore. Also, TrueType with subpixel antialiasing should give good results but might need some tweaking.

I'll follow this project and I might use it as my main editor once it is more mature :)

Re: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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Post by mmm_grayons » Sat, May 09, 2020, 6:59 PM UTC

This is a very nice piece of work, and I think very important: it shows that it's very much possible to make slick interfaces without using javascript/web technologies. It's also just as hackable as something like vscode or vim. I hope there's a shift back to native or semi-native applications as opposed to web-based stuff. It's certainly not perfect yet (it has some scaling/rendering issues and is slow to open large files), but is still a pretty great start. My two cents.

Re: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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Post by nonbirithm » Sat, May 09, 2020, 7:04 PM UTC

Interesting that it uses SDL. It would be nice if Vim or Emacs had an SDL backend, so it could be used on more esoteric platforms. I remember there being a distinct desire for a good homebrew text editor for the Switch.

Re: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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Post by metalliqaz » Sat, May 09, 2020, 7:05 PM UTC

joan_kode wrote: post #50

Looking at the screenshot in full size [1], it looks really cool but the text is visibly blurry (look at the = signs for example). Text rendering is hard, and especially for a text editor it's a good idea to just use the current platform's text rendering instead of rolling your own. Of course SDL "rolls its own" because it focuses on being exactly the same on every platform. SDL seems to offer font hinting which woul…

That could possibly be a result of the image compression as well, no?

Re: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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Post by snissn » Sat, May 09, 2020, 7:08 PM UTC

Could you share what data structure you use to keep the text in? I'm curious how text editors work, since you need fast inserts anywhere, is the text a linked list?

Re: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 09, 2020, 7:15 PM UTC

rfeague wrote: post #18

Since there are a lot of text editors, I'd like to see more detail on the motivations for yet another one. How does this compare to the current top-five open source editors?

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