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Followers9

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Followers117

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Slap vs TextMate: What are the differences?

Developers describe Slap as "Sublime-like terminal-based text editor". slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing from the terminal easier. On the other hand, TextMate is detailed as "The Missing Editor for Mac OS X". 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.

Slap and TextMate can be primarily classified as "Text Editor" tools.

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, TextMate provides the following key features:

Ability to Search and Replace in a Project
Auto-Indent for Common Actions Like Pasting Text
Auto-Pairing of Brackets and Other Characters

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.

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Pros of Slap

Pros of TextMate

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Great for SSH sessions and git commit messages

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Syntax highlighting
5
Javascript
5
PHP Developer
4
Native UI
4
jQuery developer
3
Ruby
2
Bundles
2
Snippets
2
MacOS native
2
Commands
2
Low Energy Usage
2
Starts fast
2
Keyboard shortcuts
2
Open Source
2
Clean ui

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What is Slap?

slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing from the terminal easier.

What is 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.

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What are some alternatives to Slap and TextMate?

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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.

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

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