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CodeMirror vs Remacs: What are the differences?
CodeMirror: In-browser code editor used in the dev tools for both Firefox and Chrome, Light Table, Adobe Brackets, Bitbucket, and many other projects. CodeMirror is a JavaScript component that provides a code editor in the browser. When a mode is available for the language you are coding in, it will color your code, and optionally help with indentation; Remacs: Rust ❤️ Emacs. A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust.
CodeMirror and Remacs can be categorized as "Text Editor" tools.
CodeMirror and Remacs are both open source tools. CodeMirror with 18K GitHub stars and 3.92K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Remacs with 3.45K GitHub stars and 298 GitHub forks.
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- Integrable in your application6
- Better content manipulation methods4
- Easy Custom Mode3
- JavaScript based1
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What is CodeMirror?
CodeMirror is a JavaScript component that provides a code editor in the browser. When a mode is available for the language you are coding in, it will color your code, and optionally help with indentation.
What is Remacs?
A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust.
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What are some alternatives to CodeMirror and Remacs?
Ace
Ace is a standalone code editor written in JavaScript. Our goal is to create a browser based editor that matches and extends the features, usability and performance of existing native editors such as TextMate, Vim or Eclipse. It can be easily embedded in any web page or JavaScript application.
TinyMCE
It is the most advanced WYSWIYG HTML editor designed to simplify website content creation. The rich text editing platform that helped launch Atlassian, Medium, Evernote, and more.
Prism
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Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Sublime Text
Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses.
Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.