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![screenshot-dark](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/433545/85227778-b42abc80-b3df-11ea-9dd3-e788f6c71882.png)
A lightweight text editor written in Lua, adapted from [Lite](https://github.com/rxi/lite)
A lightweight text editor written in Lua, adapted from [lite](https://github.com/rxi/lite)
* **[Get Lite XL](https://github.com/franko/lite-xl/releases/latest)** — Download
for Windows and Linux
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* **[Get color themes](https://github.com/rxi/lite-colors)** — Add additional colors
themes
Please note that Lite XL is compatible with Lite for all the plugins and color themes.
Yet we provide a specific lite-plugins directory for Lite XL because in some cases some adaptations may be needed to make them work better with Lite XL.
The address for modified plugins is http://github.com/franko/lite-plugins.
Currently only the "workspace" plugin needs a minor adjustment to restore the workspace when the command `core:restart` is used.
Please note that Lite XL is compatible with lite for most plugins and all color themes.
We provide a separate lite-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 http://github.com/franko/lite-plugins.
The changes and differences between Lite XL and rxi/lite are listed in the [changelog](https://github.com/franko/lite-xl/blob/master/changelog.md).
## Overview
Lite XL is derived from Lite. It is a lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua — it aims to provide
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 the font rendering and reduce CPU usage.
The aim of Lite XL compared to lite is to be more user friendly, improve the quality of font rendering, and reduce CPU usage.
## Customization
Additional functionality can be added through plugins which are available from
the [plugins repository](https://github.com/rxi/lite-plugins) or from the [plugin repository adapted to Lite XL](https://github.com/franko/lite-plugins); additional color
themes can be found in the [colors repository](https://github.com/rxi/lite-colors).
The editor can be customized by making changes to the
[user module](data/user/init.lua).
Additional functionality can be added through plugins which are available in
the [plugins repository](https://github.com/rxi/lite-plugins) or in the [Lite XL-specific plugins repository](https://github.com/franko/lite-plugins).
Additional color themes can be found in the [colors repository](https://github.com/rxi/lite-colors).
These color themes are bundled with all releases of Lite XL by default.
The editor can be customized by making changes to the [user module](data/user/init.lua).
## Building
You can build the project yourself using the Meson build.
You can build Lite XL yourself using Meson.
In addition the script `build-packages.sh` can be used to compile Lite XL and create a package adapted to the OS, Linux, Windows or Mac OS X.
In addition, the `build-packages.sh` script can be used to compile Lite XL and create an OS-specific package for Linux, Windows or macOS.
The following libraries are required:
- freetype2
- SDL2
The libraries libagg and Lua 5.2 are optional.
If they are not found they will be automatically downloaded and compiled by the Meson build system.
Otherwise, if they are present they will be used to compile Lite XL.
The following libraries are optional:
On a debian based systems the required library and Meson can be installed using the commands:
- libagg
- Lua 5.2
If they are not found, they will be downloaded and compiled by Meson.
Otherwise, if they are present, they will be used to compile Lite XL.
On Debian-based systems the required libraries and Meson can be installed using the following commands:
```sh
# To install the required libraries:
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meson install -C build
```
When performing the "meson setup" command you may enable the "portable" option to choose the
kind of install.
When performing the `meson setup` command you may enable the `-Dportable=true` option to specify whether a portable build should be done.
If the portable option latter is enabled Lite XL is built to use a "data" and a "user" directory
from the same directory of the executable.
If "portable" is not enabled (this is the default) Lite XL will use unix-like
directory locations.
In this case the "data" directory will be `$prefix/share/lite-xl` and the "user"
If `portable` is enabled, Lite XL is built to use `data` and `user` directories placed next to the executable.
Otherwise, Lite XL will use Unix-like directory locations.
In this case, the `data` directory will be located in `$prefix/share/lite-xl`, and the `user`
directory will be `$HOME/.config/lite-xl`.
The `$prefix` is determined as the directory such as `$prefix/bin` corresponds to
the location of the executable.
The `$HOME` is determined from the corresponding environment variable.
`$prefix` is determined such that `$prefix/bin` corresponds to the location of the executable.
`$HOME` is determined from the corresponding environment variable.
As a special case on Windows the variable `$USERPROFILE` will be used instead.
If you compile lite-xl yourself it is recommended to use the script `build-packages.sh`:
If you compile Lite XL yourself, it is recommended to use the script `build-packages.sh`:
```sh
bash build-packages.sh <arch>
```
It will run meson and create two zip files, one for the portable version and
one for the unix-like version. Lite XL can be easily installed by unpacking one
of the zip archive in a directory of your choice.
The script will run Meson and create two .zip files, one for the portable version, and
another one for the Unix-like version. Lite XL can be easily installed by unpacking one
of these .zip archives in some directory of your choice.
Please note that no directory is not hard-coded in the exectuable so that the
Please note that there aren't any hard-coded directories in the executable, so that the
package can be extracted and used in any directory.
Note also that the unix-like package can work on windows as well.
Note that the Unix-like package can also work on Windows.
Please note that while compiling Lite XL on Mac OS X should work Mac OS X is not
officially supported.
Please note that while compiling Lite XL on macOS should work, macOS is not officially supported.
## 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
as a plugin, after which a pull request to the
[plugins repository](https://github.com/rxi/lite-plugins) can be made.
If the plugin uses any Lite XL-specific functionality, please open a pull request to the
[Lite XL plugins repository](https://github.com/franko/lite-plugins).
Pull requests to improve or modify the editor itself are welcome.
## License