Slap Review

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Review of Slap powered by the Slant community.

Slap is a sublime-like text editor which works inside the terminal.

SpecsUpdate

PlatformsWindows; OSX; Linux

LicenseMIT

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Pros

Pro
First-class mouse support

Slap supports mouse keybindings even though it works inside the terminal and also through SSH.

Pro
Uses desktop-like keybindings

Slap features configurable keybindings (Ctrl+S, Ctrl+Z, etc).

Pro
Great terminal interface

Cons

Con
Requires node.js

Slap is written in JavaScript and it requires something to interpret it in a local machine. That something is node.js, but for people who don't need node, it would be a hindrance and an overkill to install node just to use a simple text editor. Furthermore, it can only be used remotely if the remote machine has node installed.