[akavel]

If you are interested in small Lua-based text editors, I advise you to take a look at Textadept: https://foicica.com/textadept/ . Specifically as to minimalism: "Relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, the editor consists of less than 2000 lines of C code and less than 4000 lines of Lua code." I believe this is a limit that the editor's author self-imposed and keeps to it with an impressive strictness.

edit: though it uses Scintilla for the "engine" and I would assume its LOC count is not counted towards this limit.

[p4bl0]

You might also be interested in kilo: https://github.com/antirez/kilo

[moonchild]

Or, for something really minimal, two kilo - https://github.com/moon-chilled/Two_Kilo/blob/master/two_kil...

[aeosynth]

Similar in rust: https://github.com/ilai-deutel/kibi

[stevekemp]

I forked that to add support for Lua-based scripting, multiple buffers, etc. Fun exercise:

https://github.com/skx/kilua

[akritrime]

Hunter x hunter reference?

[stevekemp]

No, it was just the obvious "kilo" to "ki-lua" transformation!

[clnhlzmn]

Textadept is great. It's my daily driver. That's mostly because I was looking for something lightweight that I could configure to operate similarly on windows and mac.

[rk06]

Text adept lacks a "folder view". if it were not for it. and "open folder".

For now, lite also lacks "open folder", but it shows tree view of current directory atleast

[bachmeier]

Textadept is also very extensible with little effort.

[malkia]

Also "zile"

[kingosticks]

texadept is great, it can handle really large files where most other editors crash/die.

[canada_dry]

Just tested that premise with a 300MB text file... Kate loaded it no problem in about 3secs... textadept didn't load the file, gave an error.

From textadepts FAQ:

Q: Why can’t Textadept handle HUGE files very well?

A: Textadept is an editor for programmers. It is unlikely a programmer would be editing a gigantic log file. There are other tools for that case.

[kingosticks]

I can't speak to the FAQ, I guess by 'gigantic' they mean tens of GBs. I use it for what i consider large files all the time, I just opened a 2GB file to check I am not going mad and it worked just fine. It took around 10 seconds to open so I agree it's not the quickest to start but at least it does. I'm running Textadept 10.7 on a decent Linux machine.