What is the best alternative to Textadept?

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score 943 · Answer 1

Atom

Arduino is the most important platform for developing embedded systems. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Mac, Linux

License:MIT

Price:free

Dev platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux

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score 30 · Answer 2

Light Table

Top Pro

Inline evaluation

With LT's inline evaluation, you don't have to re-compile your whole source file. Each time you want to see an output, all you have to do is hover your cursor over the line you'd like to evaluate and press ctrl+enter; LT will evaluate that line of code for you. See More

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Your code runs live as you write it

The "Watches" feature lets you see your code running live as you type it. This means that you can debug your code live while writing it, which leads to considerably less programming errors. See More

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Plugin manager available

LT has a plugin manager built directly inside of it. This plugin manager connects to LT's own registry of plugins, so whenever you want assistance while writing your HTML, JS, or even Python, just open up the plugin manager, search for it, and click the little install button beside it's name. Your plugin will then be installed. See More

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Platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux

License:MIT

Price:Free /Opensource

Auto Complete:Y

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score 1279 · Answer 3

Vim

Top Pro

Vim encourages discipline

If you use Vim long enough, it will rewire your brain to be more efficient. See More

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Platforms:Linux, macOS, Windows

1279 292

score 14 · Answer 4

Howl

Specs

Platforms:Windows; OSX; *nix

14 1

score 410 · Answer 5

Emacs

Emacs is great for everything. See More

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Platforms:Unix-like, Windows

410 107

score 399 · Answer 6

Spacemacs

399 55

score 271 · Answer 7

Neovim

Neovim can work on terminal, on a remote server over ssh. See More

Top Pro

Terminal mode is very convenient for testing code in a split window

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Platforms:Linux, Windows, macOS, *nix, Android

271 51

score 19 · Answer 8

Kakoune

19 1

score 1676 · Answer 9

Visual Studio Code

It leverages TypeScript compiler functionality to statically type check JS (type inference, JSDoc types) with "javascript.implicitProjectConfig.checkJs": true option. See More

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Inline definition picking and usages finding

These features allow you to have a glance at code without opening it as a whole in a separate tab. Moreover, editing is allowed. See More

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Good support for new Emmet syntax

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Platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux

1676 423

score 298 · Answer 10

Notepad++

You can define your own custom syntax highlighting rules (or add support for others) . See More

Top Pro

Supports Markdown

If you have the Plugin Manager installed you can search for MarkdownViewer++ and install it via that plugin. See More

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Platforms:Windows

License:GPL

Auto Complete:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

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score 17 · Answer 11

Spacemacs

Top Pro

Preconfigured emacs distro

Spacemacs is just a well-configured Emacs distribution with community-sourced best in class plugins and layers selected to take the setup pain out of Emacs. Evil mode gives the Vim bindings and modes for fast editing, while Helm makes everything discoverable to make learning to be more productive simple and unintrusive. See More

Top Con

Emacs is slow

Emacs is single threaded which means that if you enable all the great features you might be used to from Vim, it will run noticeably slower which can be quite frustrating at times. There are efforts at a concurrent Emacs, but they don't seem to be going anywhere. See More

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VIM Keybindings with EMACS ecosystem

EMACS ecosystem and language support is best in show. The EMACS is a great IDE that was in search of a good text editor. Spacemacs makes EMACS have a good text editor. See More

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score 8 · Answer 12

Slap

8 11

score 45 · Answer 13

Kate

Supported remote file editing protocols:FTP; HTTP; SSH; WebDAV

Collaborative editing:No

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45 7

score 9 · Answer 14

PSPad

Supported remote file editing protocols:FTP

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9 2

score 8 · Answer 15

Yi

score 26 · Answer 16

BBEdit

Supported remote file editing protocols:Yes

Collaborative editing:No

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26 6

score 1 · Answer 17

Editra

Supported keybinding styles:Vi

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score 1 · Answer 18

qemacs (for quick emacs)

Use your muscle memory if you know Emacs already. See More

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score 1130 · Answer 19

Sublime Text

A Sublime license can be bought but it can still be used for free. However, a pop-up appears when you save multiple times. See More

Top Pro

Multiple languages are supported

Top Pro

Direct server upload

Provides command line shortcut for server upload. See More

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Functionalities

With lot of functionalities, where other editor even not think to provide. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux

1130 263

score 16 · Answer 20

SlickEdit

16 7