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Developers describe Nova as "The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor". It is the new native code editor for Mac. It is packed with features, built for modern workflows, lightning-fast and stylish. It also has a robust extensions architecture and replaces Code for Mac. On the other hand, gedit is detailed as "Text editor for the GNOME desktop environment, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows". gedit is the GNOME text editor. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.
Nova and gedit can be primarily classified as "Text Editor" tools.
Some of the features offered by Nova are:
- A powerful editor
- A themeable interface
- Flexible workflows
On the other hand, gedit provides the following key features:
- Full support for internationalized text (UTF-8)
- Configurable syntax highlighting for various languages (C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, Python, Perl and many others)
- Undo/Redo
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Pros of Nova
Pros of gedit
- Fast10
- Lightweight9
- GNOME Integration9
- Syntax Highlighting5
- Immediately starts3
- Tabbed UI3
- Free2
- I love gnu-linux2
- External tools and snippets1
- Supports every programming language1
- Spell Check1
- If you took cs50, you know gedit1
- Old gedit based on gtk21
Pros of Nova
- Extensions1
- Beautiful1
- Fluid and Fast1
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Cons of gedit
Cons of Nova
Cons of gedit
- GTK32
Cons of Nova
- Mac only1
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What is gedit?
gedit is the GNOME text editor. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.
What is Nova?
It is the new native code editor for Mac. It is packed with features, built for modern workflows, lightning-fast and stylish. It also has a robust extensions architecture and replaces Code for Mac.
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What are some alternatives to gedit and Nova?
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.
Atom
At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.
Emacs
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.
Geany
Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME - Geany only requires the GTK2 runtime libraries.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.