Slap vs Tower
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Detailed Comparison
slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing from the terminal easier. | Use all of Git's powerful feature set - in a GUI that makes you more productive. |
first-class mouse support;GUI editor-like keybindings*;copying/pasting with OS clipboard support;undo/redo;syntax highlighting for many languages;a Sublime-like file sidebar;select word to highlight other occurrences;double-click to select word;easy-to-use finding with regex support;bracket matching;... many other features that will make you leave nano, vim, and emacs behind | Clone & create repos with a click - Manage your GitHub, Bitbucket & Beanstalk accounts from within Tower;Open repos quickly - Tower's "Quick Open" dialog finds and opens repositories in no time;Automate the boring stuff - Fetching and stashing are automatically done for you, if you wish;Clone in the background- Downloading large projects happens in the background, while you work;Multiple windows - Have multiple projects open side-by-side |
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GitHub Stars 6.2K | GitHub Stars - |
GitHub Forks 223 | GitHub Forks - |
Stacks 2 | Stacks 214 |
Followers 9 | Followers 360 |
Votes 2 | Votes 80 |
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Atom
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