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

Lite XL is a text editor that is fast, lightweight, and powerful. It is designed to be simple, feature-filled, and extremely extensible. Here are some of its key features:

  • Lightweight: The application comes in a bundle less than 5MB and runs well on various platforms.

  • Powerful: It supports features like multiline editing, autocomplete, and pane splitting.

  • Hackable: The code is simple to modify, with no rigid APIs to restrict users.

  • Customizable: It is entirely scriptable with Lua, with C used only for OS communication.

  • Portable: It is available on Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Android, AmigaOS, MorphOS and the Web.

  • Hyperextensible: Users can add or remove features through plugins.

Lite XL is suitable for use on desktops, single board computers with weak ARM CPUs, and 1GB of RAM. It allows users to customize the editor to their needs and add functionality by creating themes and plugins.