Lite-XL Editor

Created on 2023-01-11T12:02:19-06:00

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It's basically Atom but written in C and Lua instead of CoffeeScript.

Lite upstream won't even allow word wrapping because they claim it is bloat. The XL fork allows features that are expected of a text editor to be merged and so they allow word wrapping.

It's very pretty. They use a minimalist canvas library and a CPU canvas to draw everything.

Supports multiple caret editing. Slightly glitchy but it does work OK.

You can get plugins to do all the basic text editor tasks but I have not used much of them yet.

TODO Come back and talk about the plugins after trying some more of them