Lite XL Threads Plugin

Lite XL plugin that adds the missing API for threading functionality.

Building

You will need to have meson and a working build environment for your operating system. Then, to build just execute the following commands:

meson setup build
meson compile -C build

Installation

To install just copy the generated library file to your libraries directory:

cp build/thread.so ~/.config/lite-xl/libraries/

You can also install the Lua plugins to take advantage of the threads:

cp plugins/projectsearch.lua ~/.config/lite-xl/plugins/
cp plugins/findfileimproved.lua ~/.config/lite-xl/plugins/

Api Docs

You can view the API documention on the docs subdirectory.

Plugins using threads for better performance:

• projectsearch.lua - customized project search with multi threaded support for faster searching in the magnitude of 5-10x better performance.
• findfileimproved.lua - overrides default lite-xl find file functionality and adds threading support to scan a project files making it faster to search for files on big source trees.