Lite XL

A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, and extremely extensible text editor written in C, and Lua, adapted from lite.

Features

Lite XL has support for high DPI display on Windows and Linux and, since 1.16.7 release, it supports retina displays on macOS
Documentation available
Lite XL is compatible with lite for most plugins and all color themes
Lite XL is derived from lite
Lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua
Modify and extend, or use without doing either

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License

MIT License

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Programming Language

Lua

Related Categories

Lua Text Editors

Registered

2024-07-15

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