Lite (and lite-xl) is an amazing little editor. I especially love how fast the program opens. There’s just a few small things that bother me enough to keep me from using it, but I remain impressed by the code and how lightweight it is.
Hey; I'm part of the dev community over at lite-xl; what're your top asks? I can see if we can throw it into the feature queue (though the queue is already pretty long).
Thanks for reaching out! At the moment I can't think of anything specific. It was just some small papercuts that added up enough to prevent me from using it regularly, not a lack of features. But lite-xl did show me that building a text editor isn't as difficult as I first thought, and I now have many ideas for my own personal editor that I might make one day. If I ever give lite-xl another try I'll be sure to share any requests
Faster than Sublime Text? Faster than gVim? Faster than Notepad.exe?
I don't like the word "fast" when it comes to describing the startup time of a text editor. Cold boot startup is a reasonable metric to benchmark reliably.
Some text editor out there is being marketed as "blazingly fast" because of the sole merit of the language they used to write it. But on a personal level, I found it to be as fast if not a bit slower than VS Code.
Here it opens faster than Sublime Text and much much faster than VSCode. Between Notepad and lite-xl I'd say the startup time difference isn't perceivable, and lite is far far more powerful.
It might not make a difference when using it as IDE - you fire it up in the morning and keep it opened. I use lite-xl as a second editor for occasional note entry and it starts up instantaneously. I found that using a second dedicated editor just for notes is excellent for window management and for cognitive context switching; I hated having notes buried somewhere in main editor tabs among open source code files.
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anyfactor|3 years ago
Faster than Sublime Text? Faster than gVim? Faster than Notepad.exe?
I don't like the word "fast" when it comes to describing the startup time of a text editor. Cold boot startup is a reasonable metric to benchmark reliably.
Some text editor out there is being marketed as "blazingly fast" because of the sole merit of the language they used to write it. But on a personal level, I found it to be as fast if not a bit slower than VS Code.
jmiskovic|3 years ago
It might not make a difference when using it as IDE - you fire it up in the morning and keep it opened. I use lite-xl as a second editor for occasional note entry and it starts up instantaneously. I found that using a second dedicated editor just for notes is excellent for window management and for cognitive context switching; I hated having notes buried somewhere in main editor tabs among open source code files.