Slap vs Vim: What are the differences?
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; Vim: Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. 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.
Slap and Vim can be categorized 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, Vim provides the following key features:
- Vertically Split Windows
- Vimdiff
- Folding
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.