Lifofinn

Ultra small, strong will.

Enjoy editing code with an ultra small code editor.

Extremely fast!

a. searching for thousands of files with content matching.

b. fuzzy searching for thousands of file names without content matching.

Fav features:

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a. Seamlessly integrated with shell, syntax checking and run code within editor instantly.

b. Fast indexing big codebase for auto-completion and jumping-to-definition.

c. Index tokens across different programming language and documents for fast typing and jumping.

d. High performance searching for very big project with powerful filters.

e. Preview all kinds of files within editor.

f. View realtime background output with cool semi-transparent UI.

g. Show live coloured changes with editing actions.

h. Save changes with diff operation and restore particular changes by patch operation.

i. Import pre-parsed tokens for efficient programming.

j. Cache every searching result for fast locating code lines.

k. Efficiently manage working on files across different projects.

l. Save file changes and restore before committing.

m. Syntax highlighting, code runner, code formatter and debugger for almost any programming language.

n. Writing markdown file with live preview.

o. Print current document to beautiful syntax coloured PDF file or paper.

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Lifofinn, serious-small and friendly code editor, code runner and debugger, the name means a fire bird that can rebirth and rise again from the ashes, or a joke meaning, Lifo-finn, Finn last in, first out. This tiny dev tool was originally developed to provide a native scripting language debugging environment that seamlessly integrated with C and C++, designedly made for Lua and mruby development at the beginning. After years of development, it already supports debugging code for C, C++, Lua, mruby, Ruby, AWK, Tcl, Forth, Python, Perl, PHP, Basic, Pascal, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Dart, Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift, R, Erlang, Elixir, OCaml and Haskell, and can be easily extended to support any programming language. This app was designed for efficient programming, makes programming feels light, simple and free. It not only has an efficient code navigation and call routines tracing ability but also has a very flexible design that helps user to extend it to support special developing requirements in a comfortable and efficient way.

Why say no to big softwares?

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An extremely small code editor is the design goal of Lifofinn to pursue, and also the design philosophy of this unique efficient utility. Most of the code editors on macOS are very heavy, bulky! But Lifofinn code editor is really really ultra light. Why small software is so important in software industry, thinking about the infrastructure softwares that written with C and has a very small footprint. Big software waste time to maintain, wast big storage and runtime memory, waste energy, waste time to upload and download. It's waste people's life! Waste resource of the planet! Every desktop developer should known one thing, the embedded system developers sometime even fighting for one byte of storage in some situation. They never think about memory and storage like embedded system developers and produce garbage based on big garbage, so more and more big monster there. They make software as big as possible, as complex as possible, but some people still believe in the opposite philosophy. (recent distribution of Lifofinn becomes 2x bigger than past version, because it's an universal binary that compatible with Silicon Mac).