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Open source API-compatible alternative to the text editor Sublime Text

25 mentions on Hacker News by 25 people: 8 stories, 17 comments · first 2013-10-23 · latest 2021-04-04

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  1. https://github.com/limetext/lime It looks like the source code isn't available to the public yet? Is it still in beta test?
    comment by cable2600 · 2021-04-04 · in Lime: Open-Source API-Compatible Alternative to Sublime Text
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    Open source API-compatible alternative to the text editor Sublime Text
    story by febin · 2017-09-17 · 0 comments
  3. …find the idea of splitting an editor into frontend and backend to be worth exploring. Lime does it https://github.com/limetext/lime , NeoVim does it.
    comment by xaduha · 2017-05-28 · in Slap – A Sublime-like terminal-based text editor
  4. …- not much has really happened on it since April 2015. [0]: It's the fifth point on the roadmap: https://github.com/limetext/lime/wiki/Goals
    comment by Arcsech · 2016-10-13 · in Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)
  5. …it's wack-a-mole to discover if all your plugins work, this remains a pet project in my mind. [0] https://github.com/limetext/lime/wiki/Goals
    comment by RKoutnik · 2016-10-13 · in Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (2014)
  6. You may be interested in [LimeText]( https://github.com/limetext/lime ), if it ever gets to a usable state. It's aiming to be a open-source clone of Sublime.
    comment by nitemice · 2016-09-22 · in Sublime Text 3 Build 3124
  7. …use C++, but I plan on using D for a QML app someday), but I know some other projects that do like https://github.com/limetext/lime
    comment by trishume · 2016-01-21 · in A Book about Qt5
  8. Limetext[1] is an actual open source sublime text. [1] https://github.com/limetext/lime
    comment by gerbal · 2015-04-18 · in Switching to Atom from Sublime Text
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    Quick notes on debugging a Go program with lldb
    story by ZiDoM · 2015-03-09 · 0 comments
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    Lime Text Editor – Open Source API-Compatible Alternative to Sublime Text
    story by snake_case · 2015-02-25 · 0 comments
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    Open Source API-Compatible Alternative to Sublime Text
    story by gnocchi · 2015-02-12 · 0 comments
  12. …find the closed source thing objectionable. You can still have most/all Sublime text advantages : https://github.com/limetext/lime
    comment by waps · 2015-02-06 · in Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick?
  13. …is the new cool. People go where the work is and go where their peers are. [1] https://atom.io/ [2] https://github.com/limetext/lime
    comment by colinramsay · 2014-10-15 · in Is WPF dead: the present and future of WPF
  14. …There's an open source Go version of Sublime, for example. It would probably be easier to maintain. https://github.com/limetext/lime
    comment by melling · 2014-10-13 · in The Future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp
  15. …when there were almost daily updates? There is Lime - which is an open source Sublime 'clone' https://github.com/limetext/lime
    comment by thecrumb · 2014-08-20 · in Is Sublime still alive?
  16. From ( https://github.com/limetext/lime/wiki/Goals ) it is largely aiming to be a drop in replacement : - Compatible with Textmate color schemes (which is what ST is using) - Compatible with Textmate syntax definitions (which again is what…
    comment by weavie · 2014-08-19 · in Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone
  17. …. Linux cross compile is apparently working and a Windows version is in the works as well. https://github.com/limetext/lime/wiki/Goals
    comment by ejr · 2014-08-06 · in How we turn $199 Chromebooks into Ubuntu-based code learning machines for kids
  18. I'm willing to bet anything that just like Sublime was FOSS cloned to Lime ( https://github.com/limetext/lime ), this as well will be cloned as FOSS, if it is any good, that is. Subatom seems like a great project title :)
    comment by prasoon2211 · 2014-02-27 · in Atom
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    Lime – Sublime Text open source clone
    story by tambourine_man · 2014-02-21 · 0 comments
  20. "Hm, maybe better to write an open-source version of Sublime Text?" You mean, like Lime? https://github.com/limetext/lime
    comment by swdunlop · 2014-02-21 · in Neovim
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    Open source alternative to Sublime Text
    story by hello_n · 2014-01-29 · 0 comments
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    Open source alternative to Sublime Text
    story by tr4pach · 2014-01-29 · 0 comments
  23. The battle of the editors! Which one should I choose now that Lime ( https://github.com/quarnster/lime ) is out there too? :).
    comment by hajderr · 2013-10-25 · in TextMate 2.0 goes open source in response to OS X restrictions
  24. https://github.com/quarnster/lime#what-is-lime
    comment by kh_hk · 2013-10-23 · in Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone
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    Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone
    story by seer · 2013-10-23 · 247 comments