Textadept Review

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Textadept is free and open-source written in Lua and C.
It has a GUI version that runs in a desktop environment, and a terminal version.

SpecsUpdate

PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux, BSD

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Pros

Pro
Has both GUI and TUI

Both text and GUI versions behave mostly the same, just the way notepad users would expect it to.
Like shift+arrows - select, Ctrl+c - copy, Ctrl+o - open a file.

Pro
Cross-platform

It's available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Pro
Easily written plugins

You can write plugins pretty easily.

Here is the API doc, quite compact.

Here is a module which adds a support for ctags.

Pro
Small and portable

Has very few dependencies, and very small footprint. Can be copied to a new system in a moment, unpacked and be at your service.

Pro
Scriptable

Has a built-in lua engine.

Cons

Con
Community

Does not have an IRC channel or some kind of forum where a community of developers/plugin writers could evolve around. Has a mailing list which is said to be active but that does not feel that attractive.