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orchid

A lightweight text editor written in Lua 𝕎𝕖𝕝𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕘𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕖𝕟.

Overview

orchid is a lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua. It aims to provide something practical, pretty, and small. Like an orchid. All these features are to be implemented as simply as possible; easy to modify and extend, or to use without doing either.

Customization

Additional functionality can be added through plugins which will be available from two repositories, one for plugins and the other for color themes. The editor can be customized by making changes to the user module.

Building

You can build the project yourself on Linux using the build.sh script or on Windows using the build.bat script (MinGW is required). Note that the project does not need to be rebuilt if you are only making changes to the Lua portion of the code.

License

This project is in the public domain. See LICENSE for details.