It's actually a lovely editor. I've used it a few times in the past, and it's lightning quick, responsive and featherlike in terms of resource use, as if Sublime was open sourced. Lite XL doesn't have fancy features, no crazy plugins, it's just a great basic GUI editor.
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
#92Uses 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++.
Native UIs are becoming an anachronism pretty fast. Free-form web and electron based apps are becoming the norm and it won't be to long before people see native UI apps as some sort of weird throwback. IE. IMO that ship has sailed and using lower level/cross platform graphics stacks make a lot more sense these days.
Fast native running binaries will never be anachronistic
Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
#93So this is like a competitor to Notepad++ or more of a Sublime text competitor?
Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
#94It's actually a lovely editor. I've used it a few times in the past, and it's lightning quick, responsive and featherlike in terms of resource use, as if Sublime was open sourced. Lite XL doesn't have fancy features, no crazy plugins, it's just a great basic GUI editor.
which is exactly what i want in a text editor. If i need the IDE features, i'd switch over to vscode, or use intellij. For quick text editing work, like changing a config file or something, this is perfect.
Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
#95It's actually a lovely editor. I've used it a few times in the past, and it's lightning quick, responsive and featherlike in terms of resource use, as if Sublime was open sourced. Lite XL doesn't have fancy features, no crazy plugins, it's just a great basic GUI editor.
which is exactly what i want in a text editor. If i need the IDE features, i'd switch over to vscode, or use intellij. For quick text editing work, like changing a config file or something, this is perfect.
I don't enjoy vscode (any more) and don't enjoy IntelliJ, so I'd hope to be able to use this for IDE things.
I'd like to see an alternative to LSP created for editors like this, now that Visual Studio Code has shown not to be open. I think it could be built upon Jupyter Kernels, which really pioneered the client server architecture of LSP.
My ideal IDE would be something I would also want to use for one-off editing of config files. I did this with TextMate back in the day.
Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
#96Are there any text editors that have MDI? I know TDI is really popular, but I prefer the classic windows 3.0 way of embedded document interfaces.
Me too. However it seems that all editors moved to TDI around the turn of the century. Sam is a graphical text editor that still maintains the MDI interface, but it is too bare bones for my taste.
Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
which is exactly what i want in a text editor. If i need the IDE features, i'd switch over to vscode, or use intellij. For quick text editing work, like changing a config file or something, this is perfect.
I don't enjoy vscode (any more) and don't enjoy IntelliJ, so I'd hope to be able to use this for IDE things. I'd like to see an alternative to LSP created for editors like this, now that Visual Studio Code has shown not to be open. I think it could be built upon Jupyter Kernels, which really pioneered the client server architecture of LSP. My ideal IDE would be something I would also want to use for one-off editing o…
You're conflating LSP and VSCode. LSP is a completely open spec for things like autocomplete, syntax highlighting, symbol searching and so on. Any editor can use any LSP server and jetbrains is using it for new languages in their editors and fleet
VSCode is also completely open source. The only thing not "open" about it is the keys they use to make the final distributable. Even the VSCodium docs say as much. They literally just build the final distribution but with slightly different keys to point to their open source extension distribution website instead of the Microsoft one
Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
#98It's actually a lovely editor. I've used it a few times in the past, and it's lightning quick, responsive and featherlike in terms of resource use, as if Sublime was open sourced. Lite XL doesn't have fancy features, no crazy plugins, it's just a great basic GUI editor.
which is exactly what i want in a text editor. If i need the IDE features, i'd switch over to vscode, or use intellij. For quick text editing work, like changing a config file or something, this is perfect.
geany works well too
Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
#99It's actually a lovely editor. I've used it a few times in the past, and it's lightning quick, responsive and featherlike in terms of resource use, as if Sublime was open sourced. Lite XL doesn't have fancy features, no crazy plugins, it's just a great basic GUI editor.
If you want "Open Source Sublime" check out CudaText. Loads fast too. Plugins are Python (like Sublime Text) but whole thing is coded in FreePascal using Lazarus. It's really capable.
Re: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
#100I'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…
Certainly Vim has all of the Makefile machinery built-in and it wouldn't take much to customize it [1].