What GUI Library does the editor use?
Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
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Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
#12Here's another one with a very small footprint:
https://github.com/DigitalMars/med
It's the one I use every day. The executable on Windows is a little over a meg. It also works on Linux and Mac.
Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
#13I use this on an ancient Chromebook because VSCode and Lapce feel sluggish in comparison. What it really needs is a plugin manager.
Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
#14What GUI Library does the editor use?
A quick look at the source seems to indicate SDL and freetype.
Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
#15Here's another one with a very small footprint: https://github.com/DigitalMars/med It's the one I use every day. The executable on Windows is a little over a meg. It also works on Linux and Mac.
Med appears to be a command line text editor, while this is a gui text editor... different beasts entirely.
Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
#16I stopped using lite-xl a few months back over the lack of word wrapping, but it looks like it's in as of October/v2.1.0
It's a good stopgap between vim and vscode
Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
#17They have packages for pretty much every platform except Debian.
Debian takes forever when it comes to adding new packages. I'm talking years.
Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
#18The aim of Lite XL compared to lite is to be more user friendly, improve the quality of font rendering, and reduce CPU usage. Plug-ins are not necessarily compatible
The plugin system is a disaster in this project. Basically, each "plugin" is just a Lua script that can (and often does) modify absolutely anything in the editor, including core data structures and other plugins.
The original Lite was an exercise in creating a minimal editor, which I think succeeded. This project tries to take that base and expand it to add a ton of features, but doesn't re-architect it to support that expansion. So instead, you have a big bowl of Lua flavored spaghetti.
On the bright side though, it does seem like the maintainers are dedicated to keeping it working. So if you're looking for a text editor, you could do worse than Lite XL.
Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
#19Is there a lightweight/fast editor that has native support for LSP? Is it even feasible to have a "native LSP editor" that doesn't rely on a plugin system, or is LSP so open-ended that you're always going to need some scripted support in the editor to make a particular language server work well? I'm thinking something akin to nvi or nano with LSP features added on.
Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
#20What GUI Library does the editor use?
Last time I looked it was simple software rendering on an SDL windows.
As simple as it goes. I was impressed by how fast it was given that software rendering should be quite slow, but these days CPU are so powerful that this might not be a problem
A simple OpenGL renderer could be added with minimal efforts I think.