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by cturtle 1346 days ago
Thanks for reaching out! At the moment I can't think of anything specific. It was just some small papercuts that added up enough to prevent me from using it regularly, not a lack of features. But lite-xl did show me that building a text editor isn't as difficult as I first thought, and I now have many ideas for my own personal editor that I might make one day. If I ever give lite-xl another try I'll be sure to share any requests
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aethy 1345 days ago
Fair enough; totally understand. If you ever can think of anything please don't hesitate to fire up an issue on the tracker. We're (very slowly) going through them.
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samatman 1345 days ago
Personally, I'd like to see Lpeg integration, and support for Scintillua lexers:

https://github.com/orbitalquark/scintillua

Which would give fairly complete syntax coverage, and a good foundation for building more sophisticated tools.

Lua patterns are fairly primitive, while the opposite is true of Lpeg.

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aethy 1345 days ago
It's unlikely that we would include that in core lite-xl due to size and complexity, but we aim to have an extremely robust plugin system (all current syntax definitions come from plugins).

It is totally possible to integrate an lpeg and scintilla plugin which could drop in replace the existing syntax support.

We already have a community member doing this, but with TreeSitter, though I'm not sure where that effort is at, at the moment.

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mega_tux 1343 days ago
If remember correctly, the [Howl editor](https://howl.io/about.html) has Lpeg and use of scintillua. It looks great and it's older but I'm not sure why Lite got more press coverage.
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keyle 1345 days ago
any plans for an M1 native build?
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aethy 1345 days ago
Yes; people have built these before, so it's not really a problem with the source (I've even cross-compiled it for arm android); it's more just not part of the pipeline yet.

Given the prevalence of mac, this makes sense to support; but apple makes it really tricky to do things if you don't actually have mac hardware; even getting the x86_64 mac build built properly is a real struggle. So, we'll certainly try.

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