lite-xl IDE

lite-xl is a light-weight extensible text editor.

lite-xl-ide aims to be a suite of plugins for lite-xl that can turn it into a high-performance C/C++ IDE with minimal fuss.

Please note, lite-xl-ide is still experimental; it is not ready for release. Use at your own risk.

Quickstart

To install, you can use lpm:

lpm add https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-ide.git && lpm install ide --no-install-optional

If you want to just try it out, you can always use run to try it in a new lite bottle:

lpm run https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-ide.git:main ide --no-install-optional

Alternatively, if you don't have lpm, or don't want it, you can always pull the repository manually with git and simply copy the entire set of plugins into lite's plugin directory.

git clone https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-ide.git && cp -R lite-xl-ide/plugins ~/.config/lite-xl-/plugins

Plugins

Build

The build plugin is a flexible build system. It can be configured to either use make, or, it can take over entirely and run all the compile commands directly.

• Support for make.
• Support for internal building if configured with an appropriate compiler frontend. (gcc or clang).
• Support for executing binary in an external terminal.

TODO

• Persist settings to disk for current target, and binary arguments.
• Present recent list of targets/arguments as suggestions.

Debugger

The debugger plugin acts as a front-end to gdb.

• Allows placing of breakpoints by clicking in the gutter.
• Allows all normal debugging control operations: step, step over, step up, continue, break, quit.
• Allows watching variables by hovering over the appropriate symbol during debugging.
• Allows traversing the callstack when stopped.
• Allow to run debugged program with shell-like argument list.
• Allows watching variables by adding them to a watchlist.
• Allow clicking on the debugger status to change it (running -> break, inactive -> start, stopped -> continue).
• Allows binding the debugger plugin to terminal, allowing it to automatically parse and emit input to the debugger in a particular terminal.

TODO

• Allows adding hovered watched to watchlist with right click context menu.

LSP

Full support for LSP through @jgmdev's wonderful plugin, included in this manifest.

TODO

• Bundle a statically compiled ccls with LSP, and configure it through the ide plugin.

Git

Full support for git, again through @jgmdev's VCS plugin.

• Bundle a statically compiled git for vcs.