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rxi, lite's original author, considers lite to be complete, and isn't accepting new feature prs, which is fair enough. lite-xl was forked to keep the same gene
by aethy 4y ago
rxi, lite's original author, considers lite to be complete, and isn't accepting new feature prs, which is fair enough.
lite-xl was forked to keep the same general principle of simplicity but going a bit further with features.
- rob74 4y agoSo, keep it simple, but make it juuuust a little bit more complicated?
- jmiskovic 4y agoOriginal lite is a clean and elegant Lua implementation of text editor with quite a few features. Lite-xl does the last mile to better integrate with OS and does many features that were out of scope of lite, for example multiple cursors. In that sense lite-xl is like you say a bit more complicated, to make it actually useful for everyday tasks. I use lite embedded in my own application, and lite-xl as a quick and competent note-taking application (with custom plugin to set filename to date + document header). Both are great to me in their own ways.
- aethy 4y agoYeah, lol. It's a balancing act. Ideally we give it just enough juice to allow for things like native plugins, and the easy expected core stuff like nice font rendering , process management, multicursors, etc.. and then leave the rest to a really robust plugin ecosystem that wasn't possible to the same degree under lite.