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A lightweight text editor written in Lua

32 mentions on Hacker News by 27 people: 4 stories, 28 comments · first 2020-04-18 · latest 2024-05-07

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  1. …Lite-XL [2], which are also "built like a videogame" using a custom renderer and ui engine. [1] https://github.com/rxi/lite [2] https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl
    comment by toastercat · 2024-05-07 · in Linux When?
  2. …small, minimalist Lua-based text editor is Lite[1], and it's much less "light" cousin Lite-XL[2] 1: https://github.com/rxi/lite 2: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl
    comment by bogwog · 2024-03-02 · in TextAdept
  3. …to fall within the author's "unnecessary constraints." On the other hand, there are projects like https://github.com/rxi/lite Its scope and layout makes it extremely tinkerable.
    comment by hrmmm · 2024-01-12 · in A Love Letter to Tinkerable Software
  4. > is using pure software rendering (on top of SDL) in a rather naïve fashion https://github.com/rxi/lite/blob/master/src/rencache.c#L4 I think you'll find that they found the naive approach was sufficiently poor, performance wise, that…
    comment by wokwokwok · 2023-01-25 · in Minimal Cross-Platform Graphics
  5. …the added benefit of small footprint, high compatibility and fast startup time. The Lite editor https://github.com/rxi/lite is using pure software rendering (on top of SDL) in a rather naïve fashion but it still renders full 32bit colors…
    comment by stephc_int13 · 2023-01-24 · in Minimal Cross-Platform Graphics
  6. https://github.com/rxi/microui the editor is a fork of: https://github.com/rxi/lite
    comment by Kukumber · 2022-12-27 · in Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
  7. Have you looked into lite ( https://github.com/rxi/lite )? It's quite minimal, but easily extensible and is very lightweight.
    comment by wion531 · 2022-05-31 · in 4coder editor is now fully open source
  8. …for such a basic editor it's 38mb download. For a far smaller + more complete editor checkout Lite: https://github.com/rxi/lite
    comment by mythz · 2022-03-17 · in Lapce – Fast open-source code editor
  9. …that I wrote my own editor which kind of works, but it mostly made me appreciate the lite's design. https://github.com/rxi/lite https://rxi.github.io/lite_an_implementation_overview.html https://rxi.github.io/a_simple_undo_system.html
    comment by jmiskovic · 2022-01-10 · in Ask HN: How to learn about text editor architectures and implementations?
  10. …reason I am not using Lite is the issues with Mac. So I’m definitely going to try using this. [0]: https://github.com/rxi/lite
    comment by Matthias1 · 2021-09-27 · in Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
  11. Good to see a light weight editor. Another bloat-free editor I've my eye on is lite [1]. [1]: https://github.com/rxi/lite
    comment by legends2k · 2021-07-24 · in CudaText: Cross-platform code editor
  12. …desktop until I can afford a better laptop because Idea/VSCode runs so slowly. FWIW, I use lite ( https://github.com/rxi/lite ) if I need a very lightweight text editor that has rust linting ( https://github.com/liquidev/lintplus ) and…
    comment by sodality2 · 2021-06-08 · in CodePerfect 95 – A fast IDE for Go
  13. …Go (yep, it is not a perfect tool). ;) [0]: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs [1]: https://github.com/rxi/lite
    comment by pqb · 2021-06-05 · in Zero to Production in Rust
  14. …on the market really do take that point seriously, e.g. Flutter has a Semantics tag [2]. [0]: https://github.com/rxi/lite [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26223380 [2]: https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/widgets/Semantics-class.html
    comment by pqb · 2021-05-26 · in Gio – write immediate-mode GUI programs in Go
  15. Thanks. Found the correct link: github.com/rxi/lite - First, it's ~20k ... which I admire in itself, but I doubt it'll have all the functionality of an advanced editor/IDE system. - Second, I don't know lua, don't have plans to learn lua.…
    comment by yudlejoza · 2021-01-19 · in The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
  16. …its license. Still uses NodeJS under its hood. 60+mb in size I am surprised nobody talked about https://github.com/rxi/lite Its a really simple Editor. I have recently started working on it. Not very feature rich, but gets the job done.…
    comment by himujjal · 2021-01-18 · in The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
  17. …and rendering, and a set of neatly written lua modules for the logic. Repo and author write-up: https://github.com/rxi/lite https://rxi.github.io/lite_an_implementation_overview.html
    comment by mometsi · 2021-01-10 · in Build Your Own Text Editor
  18. …to provide sub-pixel rendering [1] (now, a fork [2]) which includes usage of libagg [3]. [0]: https://github.com/rxi/lite/blob/master/build.sh [1]: https://github.com/rxi/lite/issues/145#issuecomment-64155409... [2]:…
    comment by pqb · 2020-08-12 · in Golang Desktop App with Webview/Lorca, WASM and Bazel
  19. …[4]: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui [5]: https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear [6]: https://github.com/rxi/lite
    comment by pqb · 2020-08-11 · in Golang Desktop App with Webview/Lorca, WASM and Bazel
  20. …ago, I thought Lua would be where JS is today. But JS won... A new text editor in Lua, why not: https://github.com/rxi/lite (Rxi is awesome, see https://rxi.itch.io/ )
    comment by gauchojs · 2020-07-06 · in I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua
  21. If you are looking for a lighter than flyweight editor check out https://github.com/rxi/lite
    comment by squid_demon · 2020-06-16 · in Geany – A flyweight IDE
  22. Start Notepad++ or https://github.com/rxi/lite and then compare the startup speed with VSCode.
    comment by voltagex_ · 2020-05-18 · in Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
  23. It seems to include the entirety of Lua - https://github.com/rxi/lite/tree/master/src/lib/lua52 Which is written in C.
    comment by ccmcarey · 2020-05-09 · in Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
  24. …C[1], 2.6% Lua[2], why does the author claim it's a "text editor written in Lua" instead? [1]: https://github.com/rxi/lite/search?l=c [2]: https://github.com/rxi/lite/search?l=lua
    comment by devy · 2020-05-09 · in Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
  25. …peeking at the repo's issues shows that high DPI displays haven't quite been figured out either: https://github.com/rxi/lite/issues/46
    comment by phrz · 2020-05-09 · in Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
  26. My Lua isn't strong, but I think this is what you're looking for: Data structure initialization: https://github.com/rxi/lite/blob/master/data/core/doc/init.l... How insertion works here, which illuminates how the table is used:…
    comment by thedirt0115 · 2020-05-09 · in Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
  27. Yep: https://github.com/rxi/lite/blob/master/src/renderer.c
    comment by bitexploder · 2020-05-09 · in Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
  28. on catalina os x; I just went git clone https://github.com/rxi/lite.git cd lite ./build.sh ./lite and an app did start up, but the text gets cut off in the editor window, and I can't quit the app from the menu
    comment by tingletech · 2020-05-09 · in Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor