Lite & Lite-XL (LUA-based text editors)

[Midas]

Lite looked interesting, being lightweight, programmable (through Lua scripting) and multi-platform.

In my brief testing it appeared to be natively portable, which I guess depends on the environment options setup; as it is, most Lite's settings are kept in 'data/user/init.lua' inside the program's folder.

Lite has no visible menu or toolbars, it's entirely keyboard driven -- start with 'CTRL+SHFT+P' or 'CTRL+P', as advised...

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. [...] 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.

@ https://github.com/rxi/lite

Lite latest is v1.11, released 2022-07-05 (changes and downloads at https://github.com/rxi/lite/releases).

[lintalist]

If Lite it too light for you, you can try Lite XL, a fork of Lite, https://lite-xl.com/

Lite XL is derived from lite. It is a lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua — it aims to provide something practical, pretty, small and fast easy to modify and extend, or to use without doing either.
The aim of Lite XL compared to lite is to be more user friendly, improve the quality of font rendering, and reduce CPU usage.

(I haven't tested it for portability)

[Midas]

If Lite it too light for you...

You surely mean isn't light enough, right?

Great suggestion, BTW.

[Midas]

Finally managed to go check Lite-XL...

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

@ https://lite-xl.com/

Latest Lite-XL is v2.1.0, released 2022-10-05 (changes and downloads at https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl/releases).

Softpedia review of Lite-XL v2.0.5, dated 2021-09-30, at www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Text-editors/Lite-XL.shtml.

[freakazoid]

I was testing Lite XL today. It's not bad, but there are things I miss from other editors such as code folding. It's an editor to keep an eye on though.

To make Lite XL save settings in the same directory, create a directory called 'user' where lite-xl.exe resides.

[FileHandler]

To make Lite XL save settings in the same directory, create a directory called 'user' where lite-xl.exe resides.

Thanks. This does work indeed.

I really like this editor, despite the shortcomings it certainly has. The speed is superb, though, and I like the versatile customizing with key-bindings and themes and the whole interface in general.