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Slap vs Textadept: What are the differences?
What is Slap? Sublime-like terminal-based text editor. slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing from the terminal easier.
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.
Slap and Textadept belong to "Text Editor" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Slap are:
- first-class mouse support
- GUI editor-like keybindings*
- copying/pasting with OS clipboard support
On the other hand, Textadept provides the following key features:
- Fast and Minimalist
- Cross Platform
- Remarkably Extensible
Slap is an open source tool with 5.08K GitHub stars and 208 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Slap's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Slap
- Great for SSH sessions and git commit messages2
Pros of Textadept
- Fast1