Miscellaneous Features


Indenting Lines

If you have at least one line selected, you can use Tab or Space to indent all the lines with tabs or spaces. You can use Shift+Tab or Shift+Space to unindent the lines.


Clipboard Swapping

You can use Edit>>Advanced>>Last Clipboard or Ctrl+L to restore the text that was on the clipbaord before the latest copy.

Additionally, Lite Edit internally maintains two clipboards. You can use Edit>>Advanced>>Switch Clipboard or Ctrl+W to switch between the clipbaords. Lite Edit displays the contents of the active clipboard in the status bar.


Copy/Cut Lines Quickly

If there is no selection, copy and cut operate on the entire line.


Insert Files

If you copy a file in windows explorer, you can paste in Lite Edit to insert the contents of that file.


Command Line Options

Start Lite Edit from the command line with the /? switch to see the commnad line options Lite Edit supports.


Installing Onto Portable Device

You can install Lite Edit onto a portable device, such as a USB drive, by simply unzipping all the files in LiteEdit.zip into any folder on the portable device. Do not run the Lite Edit installer to install to a portable device since this will install some files on the host computer system instead of the portable device.


Porting Syntax Coloring Configurations

Each language you configure in the Options>>Syntax Coloring dialog box is stored in a .lang file. The .lang files are located in a 'Lite Edit\Languages' sub folder of the public documents folder. You can port your syntax coloring settings from one computer to another by copying the .lang files from one installation of Lite Edit to another. You can also add or remove .lang files from liteedit.zip to customize which .lang files Lite Edit installs.


Advanced Settings

Lite Edit's config file, LiteEdit.ini, contains advanced setting you may configure by editing the config file directly. See comments at the top of the config file for more details.

The config file is located in the current user's local application data folder. The config file path is typically one of the following:
%LocalAppData%\Lite Edit\LiteEdit.ini
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Lite Edit\LiteEdit.ini