Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

Re:Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor by iamcreasy on Saturday May 09, 2020 @02:13PM (#23127062)

It feels snappier then sublime! Is there any limitation in the plugin system?

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Re:Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor by rxi on Saturday May 09, 2020 @02:37PM (#23127256)

As the editor is written mostly in Lua, with C taking care of the lower level parts, plugins can typically customise anything limited to what is exposed by Lua and the C API. Beyond adding custom commands, plugins can also do things like patch straight in the DocView's line-drawing function to draw additional content:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3920290/80743752-7...

Or create their own custom "views":

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3920290/81343656-4...

The treeview at the left of the screen is implemented as a normal plugin, and like any other plugin can be removed from lite by simply deleteing the `treeview.lua` file.

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Re:Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor by iamcreasy on Saturday May 09, 2020 @08:13PM (#23129283)

Thank you for the response. I wanted to have a simple IDE for R because R studio is very slow. I think this is a nice base to built on top of.

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Re:Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor by phillc73 on Sunday May 10, 2020 @03:49AM (#23130997)

I support this! Have been trying to use VS Codium[1], but R Studio keeps pulling me back in. An alternative with some nice R plugins would be fantastic.

[1] https://vscodium.com/

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