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by aethy 1269 days ago
This is also my general hope for lite.

- Configs in lite are all done in lua files, and there are two files that you can edit without ever having to create a plugin that are automatically loaded by the editor: your system wide user config (a lua file), and a project file (.lite_project). Both of these can bind keys, create buttons, add functions, and whatever you like, really.

- Fuzzy finding we can do, but it's not great. We're doing some work on this, but at the moment, we'll probably disappoint you.

- We should start pretty instantaneously on a vanilla config, though for large directory trees, there's an architectural issue that does make us take a bit longer, that hopefully will be resolved in a release or two. So if you have a smaller directory tree, then lite should be pretty quick; if it's large, perhaps hold off looking at it.

- lite offers fully portable releases, and infact, I have an all-in-one build that bundles everything into a single, mostly statically linked executable; it's generally very flexible about how things are deployed.

We tend to add almost all extra functionality via plugins; so if you don't want a particular feature, you can simply remove the plugin, and be done with it.