A lightweight text editor written in Lua and SDL

Lite XL is a lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua - it aims to provide something practical, pretty, small and fast, implemented as simply as possible; easy to modify and extend, or to use without doing either.

Lite XL is based on the Lite editor and provides some enhancements while remaining generally compatible with it.

Features:

  • Colour syntaxing for numerous languages
  • Unicode support
  • Encoding switch in files
  • Plenty of plugins to enhance usability
  • Different colour themes
  • Multi-cursor editing
  • Help on typing
  • File tabs
  • Split editor to multiple editors in the same window by drag'n dropping a tab
  • Full-screen switch
  • use TrueType fonts with antialiasing
  • File reload when changed from outside the editor
  • File list sidebar
  • Menu selectable with keys and type completion
  • Close to the way other famous editors are working on different OSes making it feel more familiar, reducing the learning curve

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APhAWnJzNfg]

[video:https://youtu.be/l-Y4pnEPT4Q?t=2683]

Developer
Francesco Abbate, LiteXL team, George Sokianos
Publisher
George Sokianos
Version
2.1.7r1
License