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

Developer
Francesco Abbate, LiteXL team, George Sokianos
Publisher
George Sokianos
Version
2.1.6r1
License