About Lime
Open source API-compatible alternative to the text editor Sublime Text
Lime: questions and answers
- What is Lime?
- Lime is an open source API-compatible alternative to the text editor Sublime Text.
- Is Lime open source?
- Yes. Lime is open source under the BSD-2-Clause licence. Its source code is on GitHub at limetext/lime.
- Is Lime free?
- Yes. Lime is open source, so the software itself is free to use.
- Can I self-host Lime?
- Yes. Lime can be self-hosted on your own server or infrastructure.
- What is Lime an alternative to?
- Lime is an open-source alternative to Sublime Text. Other open-source alternatives to Sublime Text include Visual Studio Code, Neovim and Zed.
- Is Lime actively maintained?
- The most recent commit to Lime was on 2 January 2021. The project has 15k stars on GitHub.
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