Lite Xl

Features

Lightweight Text Editors - Editing plain text files with a fast, minimal interface that starts instantly and runs smoothly on low-resource hardware.
Cross-Platform Text Editors - Running a consistent text editing experience across Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Android, AmigaOS, MorphOS, and the web.
Plugin-Based Editors - Extending editor capabilities on demand by installing community or custom plugins without modifying the core application.
Text Editing Workflows - Provides a fast, lightweight text editing workflow with Lua scripting and direct canvas rendering.
Direct Pixel Buffer Editors - An editor that draws text and UI elements directly to a pixel buffer, bypassing heavyweight widget toolkits.
Embedded Lua Scripting - Runs a lightweight C core that embeds a Lua interpreter, keeping the editor fast while allowing full customization through scripting.
Lua Configuration Files - Stores editor settings, keybindings, and plugin metadata as plain Lua files that are read and executed at startup.
Event-Driven UI Rendering - Responds to user actions and file changes by dispatching events that trigger targeted UI redraws rather than full repaints.
Editor Plugins - Add or remove features on demand by installing community-contributed plugins from dedicated repositories.
Single-Threaded Execution Models - Processes input, rendering, and plugin execution sequentially on one thread, avoiding concurrency complexity and keeping resource usage low.
Lua-Based Plugin Architectures - Extends editor functionality by loading Lua scripts at runtime that hook into internal events and data structures without a separate plugin API layer.
Canvas-Based UI Rendering - Draws text and UI elements directly to a pixel buffer using a minimal rendering path, bypassing heavyweight widget toolkits.
Lua Scripting Customizations - Script the entire editor interface and functionality using Lua, with C reserved only for OS-level communication.
Desktop & Web Editor Deployments - Operate on Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Android, AmigaOS, MorphOS, and the web without reconfiguration.
Simultaneous Cursor Editing - Ships a multiline editing feature that allows selecting and editing multiple cursor positions simultaneously.
Minimal Build Dependencies - Compiles the editor with only a few core libraries (SDL2, Freetype, Lua) to keep the binary small and portable across platforms.
Editor Split Panes - Implements split panes that divide the editing area into multiple resizable panes for viewing different files.
Multiline Cursor & Autocomplete Workflows - Editing text with multiline cursors, autocomplete, and split panes in a lightweight environment.
Lightweight Editor Deployments - Operate efficiently on devices with limited memory and CPU, including ARM-based single-board computers.
Code Autocomplete Engines - Suggest and complete words or code tokens as the user types, speeding up writing and reducing errors.
Color Themes - Change the editor's visual appearance by selecting from bundled or community-provided color themes.

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