Lite XL IDE

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This repository contains development information about plugins and configurations that aim to turn Lite XL into a powerful but still minimal IDE.

If you want to know the development status of the IDE configuration for yoiur favourite programming language, look at the Language Support Status section.

Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Features
3. Language Support Status
4. Bundles Support Status
5. Credits

Installation

Read the official guide for an introduction to the intended IDE-like setup.

Features

• Syntax highlighting for 100+ languages
• Intellisense support for 40+ languages
• VSCode-like minimap
• Custom project treeview icons
• Project-wide text string search
• Project-wide filename search
• Multi-cursor editing
• Single and multi-line commenting with shortcuts
• Go-to-line-n command
• Integrated terminal
• Git integration
• Builder integration
• Debugger integration
• Todo treeview
• Code block definition preview on hover
• Project template manager

WIP

• Foldable code blocks
• Ligatures support
• Document symbols treeview

TODO

• Project-wide refactoring
• External libraries reference in project treeview
• Simultaneous tag rename
• Boilerplate utility

Language support status

Must-Have

Language	Syntax High.	LSP support	Linting	Snippets	Formatter	Builder	Debugger
Bash	✅	✅	✅ ex	✅	✅
C#	✅	✅	✅	✅
C/C++	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
CSS	✅	✅		✅	✅
Go	✅	✅		✅	✅
HTML	✅	✅		✅	✅
Java	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Javascript	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
JSON	✅	✅	✅	/
Lua	✅	✅	✅ ex	✅	✅
Perl	✅	✅		✅
PHP	✅	✅	✅ ex	✅
Python	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Ruby	✅	✅		✅	✅
Rust	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
SQL	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
XML	✅	✅	✅	/
YAML	✅	✅	✅	/	✅

Nice-to-Have

Language	Syntax High.	LSP support	Linting	Snippets	Formatter	Builder	Debugger
Arduino	✅	WIP
Assembly x86_64	✅	WIP
Assembly RISC-V	✅
Clojure	✅	✅	✅		✅
Cmake	✅	WIP
Cobol
Common Lisp
Crystal	✅	✅ *			✅
D	✅	✅	✅		✅
Dart	✅	✅	✅		✅
Elixir	✅	✅		✅	✅
Elm	✅	✅	✅		✅
Erlang	WIP	✅	✅ *	✅
F#	WIP	WIP
Fortran	✅	✅
GDScript	✅				✅
GLSL	✅	✅	✅
Groovy	✅	✅ *	✅
Haskell	✅	✅		✅	✅
Julia	✅	WIP *		✅	✅
Kotlin	✅	✅	✅	✅
Meson	✅	WIP
Nim	✅	✅ *	✅ *
Nix	✅			✅
Ocaml	WIP	WIP	✅	✅	✅
Odin	✅	✅	✅
OpenSCAD	✅
Pascal
PlantUML	WIP	WIP
R	✅	✅	✅	✅
Scala	✅	✅	✅	✅
Scheme		WIP
Smalltalk
SystemVerilog		WIP
TeX	✅	✅	✅	✅
TOML	✅	✅	✅	/	✅
Typescript	✅	✅
Typst	✅	✅	✅
V	✅	✅			✅
Vala	WIP	✅ *	✅
Verilog
Zig	✅	✅	✅ ex		✅

*: there are still some problems to solve

ex: external linter

Bundles Support Status

Must-Have

Language	LSP Bundle	Reviewed	LSP Bundle Package	IDE Package
Bash
C#
C/C++	✅	✅	lsp_c	ide_c
CSS				/
Go	✅		lsp_go
HTML
Java	✅		lsp_java	ide_java
Javascript	✅		lsp_typescript	ide_javascript
JSON	✅		lsp_json	/
Lua	✅	✅	lsp_lua	ide_lua
PHP
Python	✅		lsp_python	ide_python
Rust	✅		lsp_rust	ide_rust
SQL
YAML	✅		lsp_yaml	/

Nice-to-Have

Language	LSP Bundle	Reviewed	LSP Bundle Package	IDE Package
Arduino
Assembly_x86_64
Assembly_RISC_V
Clojure	✅		lsp_clojure
CMake				/
Cobol
Common Lisp
Crystal
D	✅		lsp_d
Dart
Elixir
Elm
Erlang
F#
Fortran
GDScript				/
GLSL
Groovy
Haskell
Julia
Kotlin
Meson				/
Nim
Nix
Ocaml
Odin
OpenSCAD
Pascal
Perl
PlantUML
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
SystemVerilog
TeX	✅		lsp_tex	ide_tex
Typescript	✅		lsp_typescript
Typst
V
Vala
Verilog
Zig	✅		lsp_zig	ide_zig
XML	WIP			/

Credits

• https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-colors
• https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-plugins
• https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-lsp
• https://github.com/vincens2005/lite-formatters
• https://github.com/liquidev/lintplus
• https://github.com/vqns/lite-xl-snippets
• https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-scm
• https://github.com/adamharrison/lite-xl-ide
• https://github.com/adamharrison/lite-xl-terminal
• https://github.com/drmargarido/TodoTreeView
• https://github.com/jgmdev/lite-xl-threads

And many more...