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litexl-2.1.8

lightweight, simple, fast, extensible text editor

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Description

Lite XL 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. Lite XL is based on the Lite editor and provide some enhancements while remaining generally compatible with it. The aim of Lite XL compared to Lite is to be more user friendly, improve the quality of font rendering, and reduce CPU usage. Please note that Lite XL is compatible with Lite for most plugins and all color themes. We provide a separate lite-xl-plugins repository for Lite XL, because in some cases some adaptations may be needed to make them work better with Lite XL. The repository with modified plugins is https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-plugins.

Package information

Ports path
editors/litexl
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Denis Fondras <denis@openbsd.org>
Categories
editors, lang/lua
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64

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