What is Slap?
slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing from the terminal easier.
Slap is a tool in the Text Editor category of a tech stack.
Slap is an open source tool with 6.1K GitHub stars and 216 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Slap's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Slap?
Pros of Slap
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Slap's Features
- first-class mouse support
- GUI editor-like keybindings*
- copying/pasting with OS clipboard support
- undo/redo
- syntax highlighting for many languages
- a Sublime-like file sidebar
- select word to highlight other occurrences
- double-click to select word
- easy-to-use finding with regex support
- bracket matching
- ... many other features that will make you leave nano, vim, and emacs behind
Slap Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Slap?
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Visual Studio Code
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Sublime Text
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Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.
Vim
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Notepad++
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