Meet Lite XL: A Lightweight, Open-Source Text Editor for Linux Users

[Tolkem]

Hi, everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life!

While checking my feed, I bumped into this: https://itsfoss.com/lite-xl/ Yeah, I know, "another text editor, as if the 100k available weren't enough". That was my first thought, too. But ...
An excerpt:

Lite XL only uses three megabytes in your disk and consumes around twenty megabytes of physical memory, compared with the almost five hundred fifty megabytes (~550 MB) that Visual Studio Code uses.
As per the official information available, some of its most popular features include:

• Cross-Platform: It currently works on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
• Lightweight: As we described before, its usage hardly ever exceeds 10 MB in RAM.
• Extensible: Being a minimal offering doesn’t mean not being customizable. Lite XL can extend its functionalities thanks to several plugins available, for example, VSC-like intellisense.
• Multi-cursor editing: It’s as wonderful as it sounds, inside Lite XL you can work with multiple cursors.
• Integrated terminal: Like Visual Studio Code, Lite XL implements its terminal.
• High DPI display support.
• Additional color themes are available.
• Supports hardware-accelerated rendering.

The appimage https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl/releases is just 1.95 MiB, yeah, you read that right, a ridiculous 1.95 MiB. I just downloaded it, and thought something might've gone wrong when I saw it was only a 1.95 MiB. I am quite impressed so far:

time ~/Appimages/LiteXL-luajit-x86_64.AppImage

real    0m6,366s
user    0m0,477s
sys     0m0,204s

I like Kate, but I'll keep playing with Lite XL to see what it can do.

 

[forester]

Thanks for passing the find along, @Tolkem !

 

[Adithyansm]

It's a great find @Tolkem !

 

[Tolkem]

@Adithyansm @forester You're very welcome, both of you(we should be thanking the guy who wrote the article, too)!