lite-xl/changelog.md

Lite XL is following closely rxi/lite but with some enhancements.

This files document the differences between Lite XL and rxi/lite for each version.

1.13

Rendering options for fonts

When loading fonts with the function renderer.font.load some rendering options can be optionally specified:

• antialiasing: grayscale or subpixel
• hinting: none, slight or full

See data/core/style.lua for the details about its utilisation.

The default remains antialiasing subpixel and hinting slight to reproduce the behavior of previous versions. The option grayscale with full hinting is specially interesting for crisp font rendering without color artifacts.

Unix-like install directories

Use unix-like install directories for the executable and for the data directory. The executable will be placed under $prefix/bin and the data folder will be $prefix/share/lite-xl. The folder $prefix is not hard-coded in the binary but is determined at runtime as the directory such as the executable is inside $prefix/bin. If no such $prefix exist it will fall back to the old behavior and use the "data" folder from the executable directory.

In addtion to the EXEDIR global variable an additional variable is exposed, DATADIR, to point to the data directory.

The old behavior using the "data" directory can be still selected at compile time using the "portable" option. The released Windows package will use the "data" directory as before.

Configuration stored into the user's home directory

Now the Lite XL user's configuration will be stored in the user's home directory under ".config/lite-xl". The home directory is determined using the "HOME" environment variable except on Windows wher "USERPROFILE" is used instead.

A new global variable USERDIR is exposed to point to the user's directory.

1.11

• include changes from rxi's Lite 1.11
• fix behavior of tab to indent multiple lines
• disable auto-complete on very big files to limit memory usage
• limit project scan to a maximum number of files to limit memory usage
• list recently visited files when using "Find File" command

1.08

• Subpixel font rendering, removed gamma correction
• Avoid using CPU when the editor is idle

1.06

• subpixel font rendering with gamma correction