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The problem was that when the editor had no events the cursor was not blinking because the event loop was blocking on wait_event. Now we no longer calls wait_event without a timeout if the windows has the focus. When the window has the focus the timeout is set to 1 / fps so that the cursor can blinks. In addition we react to the "focus lost" event to ensure the documents are redrawn without the cursor. |
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README.md
Lite XL
A lightweight text editor written in Lua, adapted from Lite
- Get lite — Download for Windows and Linux
- Get started — A quick overview on how to get started
- Get plugins — Add additional functionality
- Get color themes — Add additional colors themes
The differences between Lite XL and rxi/lite are listed in the changelog.
Overview
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.
Customization
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.
Building
You can build the project yourself on Linux using the provided build.sh
script or using the Meson build.
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.
The following libraries are required:
- freetype2
- SDL2
The additional libraries libagg and Lua 5.2 are optional. If they are not found they will be included by the Meson build system.
On a debian based systems the required library and Meson can be installed using the commands:
# To install the required libraries:
sudo apt install libfreetype6-dev libsdl2-dev
# To install Meson:
sudo apt install meson
# or pip3 install --user meson
To build Lite XL with Meson use the commands:
# configure
meson setup build
# build
ninja -C build
# Only of linux:
ninja -C build install
If you want to install Lite XL on Windows or Mac OS X we suggest to use the script build-packages.sh:
bash build-packages.sh <version> <arch>
It will run meson and create a Zip file that can be easily installed or uninstalled.
Please note the, while compiling Lite XL on Mac OS X should work Mac OS X is not well 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 plugins repository can be made.
Pull requests to improve or modify the editor itself are welcome.
License
This project is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.