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Micro vs Textadept: What are the differences?
Developers describe Micro ** 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. On the other hand, **Textadept is detailed as "*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.
Micro and Textadept can be categorized as "Text Editor" tools.
Micro is an open source tool with 11.1K GitHub stars and 503 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Micro 's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Micro
- It feels like a GUI-based editor ... in a terminal4
- Easy to use3
- Supports traditional ctrl shortcuts and copyboard1
Pros of Textadept
- Fast1