lite

A lightweight text editor written in Lua

Macoy's modifications

I have tweaked lite to follow my preferences for text editing, and to make it easy to embed in other applications.

The idea here is to use it in an e.g. dear imgui-based application as a good text editor.

Links

• Get lite — Download for Windows and Linux
• Get started — A quick overview on how to get started
• Get plugins — Add additional functionality
• Get color themes — Add additional colors themes

Overview

lite is a lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua — it aims to provide something practical, pretty, small and fast, implemented as simply as possible; easy to modify and extend, or to use without doing either.

Customization

Additional functionality can be added through plugins which are available from the plugins repository; additional color themes can be found in the colors repository. The editor can be customized by making changes to the user module.

Building

You can build the project yourself on Linux using the build.sh script or on Windows using the build.bat script (MinGW is required). Note that the project does not need to be rebuilt if you are only making changes to the Lua portion of the code.

Contributing

Any additional functionality that can be added through a plugin should be done so as a plugin, after which a pull request to the plugins repository can be made. In hopes of remaining lightweight, pull requests adding additional functionality to the core will likely not be merged. Bug reports and bug fixes are welcome.

License

This project is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.