Lite XL – Fast, Lightweight and Powerful Text-Editing Experience

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Fast, Lightweight and Powerful Text-Editing Experience

A simple, fast, feature-filled and extremely extensible text editor written in C and Lua, adapted from lite.

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Available for Linux, Windows and macOS

All the things you want for editing.

Lightweight

Lite XL comes in a bundle less than 5MB and runs well on most platforms - from desktops to single board computers with a weak ARM CPU and 1GB of RAM.

Powerful

Lite XL is powerful and has many features of a "modern" text editor. Multiline editing, autocomplete and pane splitting are supported by default.

Hackable

Lite XL is insanely hackable — there are no rigid APIs to hold you back, and the code is simple to tinker with.

Customizable

Lite XL is completely scriptable with Lua. C is only used to communicate with the OS while Lua is used for everything else.

Portable

Lite XL runs on many platforms, including Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Android, AmigaOS & MorphOS<br>and the Web!

Hyperextensible

If Lite XL doesn't provide a feature you want, it's probably available with a plugin. Add and remove features from your editor at will.

Let's get started.

Install

Learn how to install Lite XL from the official release, package managers and from source.

Set Up

Customize

Learn how to use Lite XL and customize it to suit your needs.

User Guide

Learn

Learn how to add functionality to Lite XL by writing themes and plugins!

Developer Guide

May 12, 2025

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