Lite XL is a lightweight cross-platform text editor derived from lite.
It is written mostly in Lua and is designed to stay practical, small, fast, and easy to extend, while also improving usability, font rendering, and CPU usage compared to the original project.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Lightweight text editor designed to be small, fast, and practical.
- Supports multiple cursors for editing several lines at once.
- Includes find and replace with optional regular expression support.
- Offers project-wide search for locating text across multiple files.
- Provides a fuzzy-matching command palette for quick access to commands.
- Extensible through plugins and additional color themes.
- Compatible with most lite plugins and all lite color themes.
- Supports high DPI displays on Windows and Linux, plus Retina displays on macOS.
- Provides downloads for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl
Support:
Developer: lite-xl contributors
License: MIT License
Lite XL is written in Lua and C. Learn Lua with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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