What is the best alternative to Textadept?

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score 882 · Answer 1

Atom

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

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Platforms:Windows, Mac, Linux

License:MIT

Price:free

Dev platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux

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score 29 · 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 1170 · Answer 3

Vim

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

Top Pro

If you can use Vim you can also use vi

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Platforms:Linux, macOS, Windows

1170 273

score 13 · Answer 4

Howl

Specs

Platforms:Windows; OSX; *nix

13 1

score 384 · Answer 5

Emacs

384 102

score 376 · Answer 6

Spacemacs

376 53

score 236 · Answer 7

Neovim

New neovim editor instance starts instantly and you can have multiple editors open at the same time, because id does not require a lot of memory to run. 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

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score 1416 · Answer 8

Visual Studio Code

Excellent Python plugin, originally created by Don Jayamanne, now hired by Microsoft to extend and maintain the extension. See More

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Platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux

1416 387

score 278 · Answer 9

Notepad++

Very easy to use and personalize. 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

Specs

Platforms:Windows

License:GPL

Auto Complete:Yes

Multi Language Support:Yes

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score 10 · Answer 10

Kakoune

10 1

score 9 · Answer 11

PSPad

Supported remote file editing protocols:FTP

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9 1

score 15 · Answer 12

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

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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 13

Slap

8 11

score 25 · Answer 14

BBEdit

Supported remote file editing protocols:Yes

Collaborative editing:No

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25 5

score 36 · Answer 15

Kate

Lots of plugins allow Kate to expand or shrink based on your needs. It includes GDB integration, XML completion, and symbol viewing to speed up programming. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows; OSX; *nix

License:GPL

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

Collaborative editing:No

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score 8 · Answer 16

Yi

score 1 · Answer 17

Editra

Supported keybinding styles:Vi

Column selection:Yes

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score 1076 · Answer 18

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

1076 257

score 14 · Answer 19

SlickEdit

14 6

score 26 · Answer 20

SciTE

Supported remote file editing protocols:None

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26 11