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CotEditor

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Followers24

+ 1

Votes3

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Stacks14

Followers46

+ 1

Votes8

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CotEditor vs Micro : What are the differences?

Developers describe CotEditor as "Open Source Plain-Text Editor for OS X". CotEditor is a lightweight plain-text editor for OS X. On the other hand, *Micro * is detailed as "Modern terminal-based text editor". Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals. It comes as one single, batteries-included, static binary with no dependencies, and you can download and use it right now.

CotEditor and Micro belong to "Text Editor" category of the tech stack.

CotEditor and Micro are both open source tools. It seems that Micro with 11.1K GitHub stars and 503 forks on GitHub has more adoption than CotEditor with 2.77K GitHub stars and 252 GitHub forks.

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Pros of CotEditor

Pros of Micro

3
Excellent support for Japanese encoding

4
It feels like a GUI-based editor ... in a terminal
3
Easy to use
1
Supports traditional ctrl shortcuts and copyboard

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What is CotEditor?

CotEditor is a lightweight plain-text editor for OS X.

What is Micro ?

Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals. It comes as one single, batteries-included, static binary with no dependencies, and you can download and use it right now.

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What companies use CotEditor?

What companies use Micro ?

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What tools integrate with CotEditor?

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What are some alternatives to CotEditor and Micro ?

BBEdit

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TextMate

TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.

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.

Vim

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

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