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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

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Post by xrayarx »

vbezhenar wrote: post #26

Can someone suggest an editor for macOS with smart text algorithms to allow work on unlimited file size or line length? I need to view unlimited text, switch between encodings (including hex) and I want editor with proper algorithms, so it'll work instantly and without loading entire file in the memory. Should support search with fast regex engine. Editing would be nice too. I imagine editing as a sequence of actions…

I would suggest to post your question as a „ask hn“. More people would see your questions this way

Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua

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Post by Octoth0rpe »

tmtvl wrote: post #25

Uses SDL for rendering the UI. While it makes it work cross-platform it unfortunately means it won't look like a native application. Then again, I don't think there's a C library which provides cross-platform native UI, only the Lazarus toolkit for Free Pascal and WxWidgets for C++.

> Then again, I don't think there's a C library which provides cross-platform native UI, only the Lazarus toolkit for Free Pascal and WxWidgets for C++.

libui seemed like it was going to be this, but it looks like there haven't been commits in almost 2 years :(

(I'm mostly replying to raise visibility on libui, maybe someone will discover it/help out a bit)

Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua

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Post by globalnode »

vbezhenar wrote: post #26

Can someone suggest an editor for macOS with smart text algorithms to allow work on unlimited file size or line length? I need to view unlimited text, switch between encodings (including hex) and I want editor with proper algorithms, so it'll work instantly and without loading entire file in the memory. Should support search with fast regex engine. Editing would be nice too. I imagine editing as a sequence of actions…

I'd also love something that works in this situation. I've been contemplating writing something that does this for a while now but it would take a fair bit of work for the fringe cases where I'd actually need it, so it hasnt been written yet :(

Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua

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Post by generalizations »

xrayarx wrote: post #31
vbezhenar wrote: post #26

Can someone suggest an editor for macOS with smart text algorithms to allow work on unlimited file size or line length? I need to view unlimited text, switch between encodings (including hex) and I want editor with proper algorithms, so it'll work instantly and without loading entire file in the memory. Should support search with fast regex engine. Editing would be nice too. I imagine editing as a sequence of actions…

I would suggest to post your question as a „ask hn“. More people would see your questions this way

There's been a lot of Ask HN's recently. It'd be nice to have fewer.

Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua

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Post by taf2 »

vbezhenar wrote: post #26

Can someone suggest an editor for macOS with smart text algorithms to allow work on unlimited file size or line length? I need to view unlimited text, switch between encodings (including hex) and I want editor with proper algorithms, so it'll work instantly and without loading entire file in the memory. Should support search with fast regex engine. Editing would be nice too. I imagine editing as a sequence of actions…

Does vi maybe help in this case?

Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua

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Post by tmtvl »

mhd wrote: post #29
tmtvl wrote: post #25

Uses SDL for rendering the UI. While it makes it work cross-platform it unfortunately means it won't look like a native application. Then again, I don't think there's a C library which provides cross-platform native UI, only the Lazarus toolkit for Free Pascal and WxWidgets for C++.

I wonder if people actually remember how native apps are supposed to look like on any of the major platforms… Mac users, maybe. For all other platforms, churn and barely contained web apps are really wreaking havoc on the benefit of a uniform look and – most importantly – feel.

I'm a KDE user who really likes the classic Oxygen theme, and it's annoying when certain applications (e.g. Eclipse) just look way out of place. I managed to find a decent GTK port of the theme so even Emacs and Firefox are quite well-behaved.

No idea what a Windows app looks like, though, I recently fixed my grandfather's Windows 8 laptop and immediately gave up trying to understand how theming is meant to work.

Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua

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Post by Daunk »

I've wanted to write a small text editor for a while - cause I feel like most editors don't fit my workflow - but I've been a bit too busy with work.

I don't really care about fancy features or extensions. Let me just create "tasks" (for compiling and such) and let me execute these tasks with a single button, then let me see the output from these tasks that eventually execute some application/compiler etc. That'll let me use it for any language and task.

I'd also preferably like to use I J K L as the cursor keys and toggle "Mode" (VIM style) with TAB.

And the whole thing should just run in your terminal, which can already render text nicely.

Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua

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Post by proxysna »

Daunk wrote: post #37

I've wanted to write a small text editor for a while - cause I feel like most editors don't fit my workflow - but I've been a bit too busy with work. I don't really care about fancy features or extensions. Let me just create "tasks" (for compiling and such) and let me execute these tasks with a single button, then let me see the output from these tasks that eventually execute some application/compiler etc. That'll le…

Sounds like all you need is à plugin to call makefile targets from vim.

Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua

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Post by Daunk »

proxysna wrote: post #38
Daunk wrote: post #37

I've wanted to write a small text editor for a while - cause I feel like most editors don't fit my workflow - but I've been a bit too busy with work. I don't really care about fancy features or extensions. Let me just create "tasks" (for compiling and such) and let me execute these tasks with a single button, then let me see the output from these tasks that eventually execute some application/compiler etc. That'll le…

Sounds like all you need is à plugin to call makefile targets from vim.

That is a method I've been toying with. But it's still such as hassle to quickly prototype something this way.

It's also near impossible to get I J K L working as the cursor keys in VIM without having some major interference.

Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua

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Post by acdibble »

vbezhenar wrote: post #26

Can someone suggest an editor for macOS with smart text algorithms to allow work on unlimited file size or line length? I need to view unlimited text, switch between encodings (including hex) and I want editor with proper algorithms, so it'll work instantly and without loading entire file in the memory. Should support search with fast regex engine. Editing would be nice too. I imagine editing as a sequence of actions…

HexFiend (https://hexfiend.com/) works well for files of enormous size but is only a hex editor.
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