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CotEditor vs Textadept: What are the differences?
What is CotEditor? Open Source Plain-Text Editor for OS X. CotEditor is a lightweight plain-text editor for OS X.
What is Textadept? *A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-platform text editor *. A fast, minimalist, and remarkably extensible text editor for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Textadept runs on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and BSD. It also has a terminal version, which is ideal for work on remote machines.
CotEditor and Textadept can be primarily classified as "Text Editor" tools.
Some of the features offered by CotEditor are:
- Syntax Highlighting
- Powerful Find & Replace
- Setting via Click
On the other hand, Textadept provides the following key features:
- Fast and Minimalist
- Cross Platform
- Remarkably Extensible
CotEditor is an open source tool with 2.77K GitHub stars and 252 GitHub forks. Here's a link to CotEditor's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of CotEditor
- Excellent support for Japanese encoding3
Pros of Textadept
- Fast1