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This 10MB Text Editor is INSANELY Fast! Lite XL | The Lightweight VS Code Alternative
Jul 18, 2025
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Uh hello guys, welcome to this video. So
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in this video, I'll show you a VS code
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alternative text editor.
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It's a 5 mgabytes minimalistic
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lightweight editor. Uh the it's called
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as light Excel. If you go to this
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browser, simply type light-xl.com.
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You will land on this interface and as
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you can see, it has all the syntax
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highlighting for all the programming
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languages. And uh it the size is only 5
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mgabytes. So if you click on the
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download button, it's available for
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cross crossplatform. It's available for
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Linux, Windows and Mac operating system.
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This is their GitHub page. It's
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completely opensource.
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It's a lightweight text editor which is
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written in Lua programming language. So
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click on the download button and uh
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select your operating system and
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64bit you simply
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so you basically check the size of this
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which is the setup file is only 3 MGB.
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So once you install this
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this will be the setup right here.
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So you can see only 9.6 mgabytes of free
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dick space is required. So very
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minimalistic texture editor lightweight
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alternative for VS code. You simply
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install this inside your machine. So
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after installing it this will launch
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automatically. So this looks something
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like this. It's really fast as compared
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to VS code because there is not a lot of
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things which is there inside this. So
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control P. So there are some shortcuts
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that you can use.
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So this is the structure
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the syntax highlighting which is there
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and these are different uh shortcut keys
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which are there if you want to create a
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new file.
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So we can basically open a new file
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here.
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If you select that
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So these are different settings out
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there. If you see
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so plugins, you can even install some
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plugins as well. So definitely check out
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this lightweight text editor.
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It's you can see it's a lightweight
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all the key bindings. You can basically
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put the key bindings,
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the colors. You can also modify the
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colors of this text editor as well. So
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definitely check out this.
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So this is the editor settings.
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You can create a new file as well
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and save this as well. So definitely
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check out this
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light Excel editor, a great VS code
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alternative.
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