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Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

#1

Post by rxi » Sat, May 09, 2020, 5:11 PM UTC

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

#2

Post by mosselman » Sat, May 09, 2020, 5:23 PM UTC

Any instructions on how to run this on macos?

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

#3

Post by Skunkleton » Sat, May 09, 2020, 5:32 PM UTC

Its looking pretty impressive, especially for such a new project. Since you said it was fast, it got my huge log file test (1GiB of binary with lots of utf-8 text). It performed better than most editors do. It did have a few stalls though. Still, pretty impressive.

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

#4

Post by akavel » Sat, May 09, 2020, 5:34 PM UTC

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 strictness.

edit: though it uses Scintilla for the "engine" and I would assume its LOC count is not counted towards this limit.

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

#5

Post by tingletech » Sat, May 09, 2020, 5:34 PM UTC

mosselman wrote: post #2

Any instructions on how to run this on macos?

on catalina os x; I just went

  git clone https://github.com/rxi/lite.git
  cd lite
  ./build.sh
  ./lite

and an app did start up, but the text gets cut off in the editor window, and I can't quit the app from the menu

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

#6

Post by njsubedi » Sat, May 09, 2020, 5:36 PM UTC

tingletech wrote: post #5

mosselman wrote: post #2

Any instructions on how to run this on macos?

on catalina os x; I just went git clone https://github.com/rxi/lite.git cd lite ./build.sh ./lite and an app did start up, but the text gets cut off in the editor window, and I can't quit the app from the menu

Probably adding it to the dock works?

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

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Post by johnchristopher » Sat, May 09, 2020, 5:39 PM UTC

Looks nice.

But upon starting it up I lost all windows decorations (KDE), had to restart my session and lost the things I was working on in my terminals.

How can launching an app cripples the whole desktop ? (not that this have anything to do with the app to me, it's a plasma thing)

First thing I look for was support for vim keybinding, could neovim be used as the backend editor ?

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

#8

Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 09, 2020, 5:47 PM UTC

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#9

Post by Okkef » Sat, May 09, 2020, 5:47 PM UTC

Fast and small is how they all start out. Feature complete and fast, now that is impressive.

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

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Post by tingletech » Sat, May 09, 2020, 5:47 PM UTC

njsubedi wrote: post #6

tingletech wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

on catalina os x; I just went git clone https://github.com/rxi/lite.git cd lite ./build.sh ./lite and an app did start up, but the text gets cut off in the editor window, and I can't quit the app from the menu

Probably adding it to the dock works?

it creates a 348K "Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64", but I'm not sure how I would add that to the dock. I tried to drag it there with finder, but it would not take it.