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Light Table
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac
License:
MIT
Integrated Debugger:
REPL
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No
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SlickEdit
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Extensive support for programming languages
SlickEdit supports over 50 programming languages on nine platforms.
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No command line option
This is a visual only editor
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Built-in beautifier
The beautifier formats code as you type to help improve readability and consistency.
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It's kinda slow
If you have a very large project or tag database, it can hang the UI.
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Compiler tools
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Scriptable
Write custom macro commands, functions, dialogs and tool windows.
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Over 13 emulations
Choose from fifteen keyboard emulations, containing the key bindings and behaviors necessary to emulate other editors (e.g., CUA, Vim, GNU Emacs, etc.)
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Extensive configuration options
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Easy access to Visual Studio workspace
SlickEdit opens Visual Studio workspace with no conversions needed.
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Symbol analysis support
There are powerful symbol analysis features in SlickEdit, including context tagging and references.
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Integrated debuggers for multiple languages
Integrated debuggers for GNU C++, Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, and PHP.
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Multi-Platform
Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86
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Portable mode
Possibility to set up a portable installation, to run on a USB drive for example.
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Easy access to XCode projects
SlickEdit opens XCode projects with no conversions needed.
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Third party tool integration
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Popular version control system
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Textpad
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Highly efficient
Textpad can handle large text files very quickly.
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Macros are not editable
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Fast and features macros
Text Pad is fast and supports macros for easy handling of repetitive tasks.
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No bold/italics
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Large number of syntax highlighting add-ons
It's easy to add a new syntax highlighted language to TextPad.
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Disappointing keyboard shortcuts
The keyboard shortcuts in Textpad are a little dated.
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Search and Replace
Excellent regex functions to manipulate data in large text based (csv, php, etc) files.
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Easy to get started, especially for Java
When you require a minimal learning curve and a quick start to writing code, TextPad is one of the best choices. Especially for small Java projects, TextPad is the go-to editor.
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Platforms:
Windows
License:
Shareware
Bracket Matching:
Yes
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Download and use for free for 30 days
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CodeRunner
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Working with very very large projects
Code runner is fantastic for shorter projects, although it can handle very large projects. It stops code completion when the program gets to be several thousands of lines long.
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Fast and efficient
You can have multiple tabs open with multiple languages in at the same time and Code Runner still performs excellently. Searching through code is always instant and executing code is fast.
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Supports many different languages
Code Runner comes preinstalled with over 20 languages built in, and it's super easy to run simple programs.
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Codiad
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Open source
You can run Codiad on your server to allow you and your team to edit files. Simplest to run may be using a Docker image like linuxserver/codiad.
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Terminal runs as same user for everyone
No matter who is the logged in user, the Terminal plugin runs commands as the PHP user. This also affects the Git plugin in that there is a single SSH key for all users using your Codiad instance.
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Easy to self-host: Only requires PHP
It only requires PHP 5+ and Nginx or Apache. No database is required. This makes it really easy to install on many servers include shared hosting.
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Full of small bugs
There are plenty of various issues and bug that may either be due to your setup and the UI will not report them, or due to bugs in the code; I'm including common plugins here as well (just naming a few: search files and in files may report nothing if it had an error, commands stderr not printed, marketplace not showing items, search in market place showing no results, Git escaping ( by \( in the commit message for no good reason...). Those are generally small but together it makes the product feel flawed.
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Multi-line edit
Allows to edit multiple things are once by having multiple cursors like Sublime Text.
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Currently no search and replace in multiple files
There is a search in multiple files, and search & replace in current file, but not something to perform a search & replace in multiple files.
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Has many easily installable plugins
Many plugins exist, from Terminal, Git to Collaboration and Emmet... Plugins can be installed by using the web interface, or by manually extracting files to the right directory.
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Terminal doesn't TTY
The terminal plugin for Codiad allows users to type some commands and see the outputs, but not interactive input is supported (i.e. stdin is closed). Meaning you cannot run Vim, Tmux or anything requiring user inputs.
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Simple and easily managable GUI
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Demo only lasts 30min
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Textadept
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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.
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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.
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Cross-platform
It's available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
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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.
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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.
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Scriptable
Has a built-in lua engine.
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Platforms:
Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD
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Kakoune
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Will be familiar to vim users
Kakoune first started as a rewrite from scratch of vim, but then ended up being another text editor altogether. So it's inspired in a lot of ways from vim.
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Small community
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More modern than vim
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No real Windows support
Will compile under CygWin.
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Good UNIX citizen
It follows the UNIX philosophy by doing one thing well (text editing) and interfaces nicely with other CLI tools.
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Default bindings do not play nice with OS X (Alt+???)
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Text selection mechanism
Kakoune works on selections, which are oriented, inclusive range of characters, selections have an anchor and a cursor character. Most commands move both of them, except when extending selection where the anchor character stays fixed and the cursor one moves around.
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Written in C++
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Very expressive
Kakoune provides a very expressive set of commands, including various objects selection (paragraph, blocks, words), alignment support, conditional selection filtering... This set of command is expressive enough to implement all the provided auto indentation logic.
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Actively developed and supported
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Self-documenting
A helper pops up when typing commands.
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Simpler and more consistent than Vim
Some keys select, other keys operate on the selections. Shift is used to extend the selection, alt is used for alternative behavior, e.g. reverse the search direction. No inconsistencies like Y which means yy and not y$ in Vim.
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Platforms:
Linux, macOS, Android
License:
Unlicense
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PSPad
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Free
PSPad is completely free to download and use.
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Windows only
It's only available for Windows.
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Simple and small
PSPad is simple, small, and lightweight. It's also quite fast.
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No code folding
Does not support code folding.
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Code highlighting for many languages
PSPad supports code highlighting for several languages.
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No content assist
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Portable version
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Column mode
Editing in column mode.
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Integrated HEX editor
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Accented words
In PSPad, the user can add accents to words.
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Integrated FTP client
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Platforms:
Windows
License:
Freeware
Multi Language Support:
Yes
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JetBrains Rider
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New C# IDE based on ReSharper and the IntelliJ platform
ReSharper is a popular Visual Studio Extension for .NET Developers. IntelliJ IDEA is a popular and fully featured JAVA IDE.
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Not free
Project Rider has a trial version available, but is not free.
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Superior "quality of life" features
Extremely good at filling in all the mindless boilerplate type code while you stay productive.
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No support for dotTrace, dotMemory yet on macOS
Support is promised on macOS, but currently only available on Windows. This means it’s not ideally suited for performance tracing and debugging.
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Fast performant
Rider has everything you want from a serious IDE, but without the bloat. This results in significantly fast performance in day to day operations.
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Is RAM hungry
This product can hang a huge amount of RAM memory, up to 4 GB.
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Multiple runtime support
Project Rider supports the .NET Framework and Mono, with CoreCLR support in the works. It also includes templates for creating new projects, and when you create an empty project, it's literally empty
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Relatively young project
Some bugs are to be expected since it's still a relatively young project.
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Cross-platform
As well as running and debugging multiple runtimes, Project Rider itself runs on multiple platforms. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
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Abnormal key maps
Though Visual Studio Key Map can be installed, it is still hard to find where the plugins are installed when one uses it to open a solution for the first time.
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Decompile code for any .net library
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Version control integration
Intellij plugins for Git, Mercurial, and TFS plus Local History of files.
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Supports all the development lifecycle
Project Rider can build MSBuild and XBuild solutions as well as DNX/.NET CLI projects, and allows debugging .NET and Mono applications. DNX/.NET CLI debugging and CoreCLR support are coming.
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Excellent UI, Features beyond Visual Studio (File Layout just one example)
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Free for Students
With a university email, Rider can be obtained for free.
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BBEdit
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Stable development, been around for decades
BBEdit is commercial software, the paid counterpart to their free application Textwrangler. Though BBEdit comes off as pricey, this allows for stable and consistent updates from the developers. BBEdit has been around since 1992.
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Featureless
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Can open very large files
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Expensive
It's US$49.99 a single user license.
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Just about every feature is already built in
No searching for plug-ins that may or may not work.
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Great customer support
The developer is very responsive to bug reports and feature suggestions.
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Native application
Follows platform standards.
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Built-in FTP/SFTP browser
BBEdit can open files directly from, and save them to, any available FTP server. It can also open and save files directly via SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol).
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Great JAMStack environment
You can build the static site of your dreams without needing any external assistants. Although it does not process LESS, SASS, or SCSS files, BBEdit's includes are very powerful.
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Platforms:
Mac
License:
Proprietary
Collaborative editing:
No
Supported remote file editing protocols:
Yes
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Kate
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Integrated terminal
Has a terminal that can sync to the location of your document, letting you compile or run your program quickly or run quick commands, all without leaving the editor.
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Hard to install on Windows or OS X
Kate can be a little hard to install and configure, especially for beginners. On Linux or BSD, it can be easily installed from your distribution's repositories.
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Project mode
Kate allows you to make projects to simplify the organisation of your code. This brings in additional organization of an IDE without the overhead.
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Fast and minimaistic
Kate is pretty fast and lightweight. This helps it with it's start up speed.
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Syntax highlighting
Kate supports syntax highlighting for over 180 languages, from Assembler to Zsh.
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Edit over FTP, SSH, or other protocols
Kate uses KDE's input and output libraries to read and write files, allowing seamless integration with FTP, SMB, SFTP, and many other protocols.
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Thriving plugin ecosystem
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.
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By far one of the best and lightest text editors.
Notepads alternative (for the Windows users).
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Vi entry mode
Kate has a vi entry mode.
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Platforms:
Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD
License:
LGPL-2.0-or-later, MIT
Collaborative editing:
No
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Howl
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Keyboard driven
You don't need the mouse to use Howl. Everything can be accomplished with commands and shortcuts.
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Lack of Lua examples
Although Howl can be extended in both Lua and MoonScript, almost all bundles are written in MoonScript. This means that it is a bit harder to find examples if you'd rather write your bundle in Lua. MoonScript can be compiled to Lua but the code won't be as clean and understandable as if it would've been written in Lua by hand.
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Fast startup
It's extremely lightweight, making it start up pretty quickly.
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Easy to use
Howl is very intuitive and easy to use.
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Easy to extend
Plugins (bundles) can be written in Lua or MoonScript.
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UI Focused on editting
Non distracted icons, toolbars, pannels, extra spacing, etc.
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Language tooling
Has built-in functionality for completion, inline documentation and linting so IDE-like features can be added easily.
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Command line palette
Search for your commands in an easy way and see in the list which key-strokes are mapped to which commands
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Open source
Howl is an open source project and is actively developed on GitHub(howl-editor/howl). It has a MIT license.
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Works on OpenBSD
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Platforms:
Windows; OSX; *nix
License:
MIT
Multi Language Support:
Yes
Auto Complete:
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UltraEdit
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Handles large files (>1GB) extremely well
UltraEdit has small memory usage and allows for fast parsing/searching when handling large files.
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Proprietary
It's not free and a license costs $79.99.
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Works perfectly with remote files
Supports several protocols for accessing remote files and working on them with the same ease as local files. Files can be integrated in the projects as normal files.
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The themes introduced in version 20 regressed certain aspects of syntax coloring
The themes simplified the syntax highlighting which lost the capacity to have as many colors as one wanted to define. Now it is limited to around 20 different colors. In general it's not a problem but in certain cases it broke coloring. For some reason, the classic theme is the only one that is totally pleasant for readability well with syntax highlighting.
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Probably the most versatile general editor in existence.
If you need a general editor, UltraEdit is the way to go. If you were writing C/C++ all day, then this would be your editor. If you need to slog through large files then this is your go to editor. If you need to go through XML files, then this is your editor. If you need to sort data, then this your my editor.
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Fast, stable, easy to use
It loads with a short delay, but once loaded it's snappy and rock-solid. Anyone accustomed to using Windows text editors will feel at home in its interface, and those that prefer alternate keybindings can easily change them.
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Search and replace capabilities
From Ultraedit to Perl to Unix regex engines, the search and replace can accomplish just about anything.
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Responsive company
Whether for feature requests, technical support or license questions, IDM is always quick to respond.
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Nice hex display & edit
There's a handful of other features like this that make UltraEdit indispensable.
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Extremely customizable GUI editor
UltraEdit offer the best of both worlds. it has a full on GUI along with all the shortcut commands you need. There's no need for the user to suffer 80 char limitations of a terminal editor.
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Highly flexible
UltraEdit allows you to handle groups of files as a project.
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Windows, macOS, Linux
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typora
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Live preview
Typora immediately renders what's typed on the screen in Markdown format. This helps users to have a better understanding of how their document is being formatted.
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No mobile (Android/iOS) apps
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Hybrid interface
The editor and preview dual-pane setup typical of desktop Markdown editors are gone; instead, a singular interface makes for a WYSIWYG experience. This streamlines the workflow and encourages direct manipulation.
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In beta
Typora is still in beta and may be prone to changes or bugs.
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Support for LaTeX expressions
It supports LaTeX expressions, with an easy-to-use MaxJax panel.
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Unusable image management
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Syntax highlight for fenced codes
It supports GFM's code fences, with syntax highlight support for C/C++, java, etc.
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The immediate rendering of Markdown is hard on the eyes
Having Markdown immediately render causes text to jump into formatted text, which is distracting and hard on the eyes.
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Custom theme support
Typora has clean yet beautiful built-in themes and allows for users to create new themes using CSS.
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No portable version (Windows)
You need admin rights on a managed Windows computer to install it. There currently is no portable version available.
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Support for tables
It supports tables for Markdown Extra. And also provides a GUI to make it easy to insert and edit them.
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Inline images
It won't display image like , But shows the image content inside the editor.
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Free during beta
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Shows table of contents for the document
It supports an outline for the document, by showing a table of contents on the left side of the screen.
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Cross-platform
Currently works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
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Natural typing experience
Editing in Markdown, either in WYSIWYG mode or in markdown code mode, feels natural. It never gets in the way.
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Make charts and diagrams with Mermaid, FlowChart and Sequence
Use fenced code-blocks to render diagrams using syntax from Mermaid and FlowChart.js.
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Sidebar with a list of files
You can open any folder in sidebar and see a list of other markdown files.
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Syncs with iCloud
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Platforms:
Mac OSX; Windows; Linux
License:
Proprietary
Price:
$14.99
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HTML; HTML (pure); PDF; Word; OpenOffice; RTF; Epub; LaTeX; Media Wiki; ReStructuredText; Textile; OPML
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Spacemacs
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Combines the best parts of Vi and Emacs
Spacemacs combines the Emacs platform (with the full power of the Emacs plugin ecosystem) and the Vi keybindings (via EViL), all in the same box.
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Can be quite glitchy at times
Spacemacs combines many packages from many different authors that were never designed to work together. Sometimes they interact in unexpected ways, and things randomly break as one package interferes with another's features. This combined with frequent package updates and necessary customization by selection of layers and packages, can make these glitches hard to reproduce. It takes a lot of emacs know-how to fix these problems. Fortunately there is a very active community willing to help with these problems, but it might take a while.
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Simple but powerful configuration architecture
At the heart of Spacemacs, the configuration layers group packages configuration into semantic units that can be toggled on and off. The architecture is simple but powerful, allowing the user to easily manage configuration dependencies between hundreds of packages.
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Complex learning difficulty
You must be familiar with either Vim or Emacs. In addition, you should be familiar with the unique features of Spacemacs. The Layer concept of replacing Emacs settings is still difficult and abstract compared to modern editors.
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Community-driven configuration
Spacemacs is the biggest community-driven Emacs starter-kit.
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Functionality layers of complicated configuration
To configure Spacemacs, settings for Emacs/Evil/Spacemacs may need editing. It's not always clear which need to be changed or how to change settings globally: sometimes hooks are needed, other times Spacemacs provides options.
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Above average documentation quality
Documentation is mandatory for each new configuration layer and can be accessed directly within the editor in Org format.
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High CPU and unresponsive at times
There are occasions when Spacemacs would suddenly consume a LOT of CPU and then other times would become completely unresponsive. This instability took place only 6 months or so ago. Restarting Spacemacs can fix it for a while but perhaps this issue is already fixed in newer versions.
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Cross-platform
Emacs runs on Gnu/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
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Relative low startup time
Although configuration is heavily loaded, the starting time of Spacemacs is usually between two and five seconds. Emacs can be run as a daemon though which reduces the client's startup time to a few milliseconds. Still not as bad as other editors though, especially Electron based ones like VSCode or Atom.
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Completely configured out of the box
Stuff like version control, file management, good default theme are all configured out of the box.
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Mnemonic and consistent keybindings
Space-lead key bindings are organized in mnemonic namespaces. For instance, buffer actions are under SPC b, file actions are under SPC f, project actions are under SPC p, search actions are under SPC s, and so on. Keybindings are consistent across the whole distribution thanks to a set of conventions.
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Can be controlled fully with the keyboard
There's no need to reach for the mouse again since Spacemacs can be fully controlled with keyboard.
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Gradual learning curve
Evil package is a first class citizen and Spacemacs embraces it from day one. Evil package allows Vim users to be productive very quickly while still allowing regular Emacs users to use Spacemacs.
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Remote file editing
Files can be edited in Spacemacs remotely.
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Great note-taking and agenda mode built-in
Allows for great organization applications that can be saved in future-proof format, plain text, can be integrated with org, LaTeX, markdown, HTML, Literate Programming and be committed to source control.
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Offers a number of practical features
Spacemacs has some great features for taking notes, tracking to-do lists, and tracking time.
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LaTeX support
LaTeX allows for auto-completion, syncing, and more.
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Manage many code bases easily
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Daemon support
Has great daemon support, which can mitigate the issue of slow startup.
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Can work in terminal mode
Sometimes you only have terminal access, over ssh or something.
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Great CFEngine support
Syntax highlighting and org-babel extensions.
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Great support from the community
The community surrounding Spacemacs is very active and there is a welcoming gitter chat for users to ask questions.
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Lowers the risk of RSI by using the spacebar as leader
Spacemacs got its name from the fact that it is uses the space bar as a default leader key. The key was chosen because it is easy to press and to hopefully lower the risk of RSI.
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Fast-paced development
New functionalities and fixes are added to Spacemacs every day, while release cycles are short.
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Easily extended with community plugins
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Works well with Common Lisp
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Manage R files easily
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Great Clojure support
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Excellent support for Elixir programming language
Elixir layer which uses the Alchemist package is the best way to edit Elixir code out there.
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EmEditor
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Windows-only
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Excellent file compare functionality
Comparing files is intuitive and works well.
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Default themes and syntax coloring not the prettiest
Some syntax highlighting colors and/or themes don't look very good - but can be customised.
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Very good at handling (large) CSV files
Quickly opens even very large CSVs and converts data to columns according to delimiter. Fast Search/Replace operations.
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Opens very large files very fast
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Editra
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Very customizable
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UI is ugly and outdated
Editra's UI is rather ugly and outdated and the color scheme is not as sleek as the other options out there.
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Small and portable
Editra's small size makes it extremely fast and portable. It can be uploaded in a USB drive and be used on the go.
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Powerful
Editra can open more than 60 different types of source code, each with syntax highlighting and many other features. It also has many widgets that can be installed to make the user experience easier (you can download them from the main site).
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Cross-platform and open source
Editra can run on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Its sources are easily available from the site.
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Simple
Editra has a simple and very customizable UI.
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Python IDE
It's written in Python and can also be used as a Python IDE. Just by extending it through the installation of additional features and widgets, Editra can become an IDE for any programming language it supports.
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Windows; OSX; Linux
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wxWindows
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Yi
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Combines and improves upon the best text-editing features from your favorite editors
Yi has default configurations for Vim, Emacs, as well as CUA. It also makes several improvements that includes Sublime-like (multiple) cursors.
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Very few plugins available
Even though Yi is a general purpose text editor similar to Vim and Emacs, almost all of the plugins that have been written for Yi so far focus on supporting Haskell as a programming environment.
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More performant than Vim
Vim can be rather slow due the age of its code base. In particular, running large macros in Vim can be rather painful. Since Yi is being built from scratch it has been engineered for performance and with the benefit of hindsight.
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No way to reuse your existing customizations and keybindings
If you have spent years crafting your .vimrc or .emacs, there's no way to reuse it in Yi. You have to start from scratch.
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Extensible and modular editing features
As far as extensibility goes, Yi easily outstrips any other open-source text editor. Motions can be built from parser combinators, making them simultaneously flexible and modular - an open source hacker's dream.
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Requires Haskell to compile and configure
GHC + Haskell packages makes for a rather large installation, which is a big ask for a relatively obscure terminal editor.
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Plugins work together
Packages work together because they compile together.
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NetBeans IDE
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Little support for UML
Unless you load extensions.
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Cross-platform
NetBeans is a free, GPL-licensed IDE. It can run on any computer with a Java virtual machine. If a computer has a Java virtual machine (JVM), Netbeans can run on it. Netbeans can, therefore, run on a variety of operating systems such as Windows, *nix, and Mac OS.
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Slow
The Netbeans IDE is known to take a large memory as compared to other lighter IDE's available on the market. The slowdown can decrease productivity and frustrate programmers.
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Fantastic Maven support
NetBeans has out-of-the-box support for Maven (NetBeans 6.7 and newer), which includes a repository browser.
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Good refactoring
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Easy to learn
Very easy to learn, unlike e.g. Eclipse (which is probably the most flexible).
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Good support for integrated Database e Servers (E.g. Tomcat)
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Multiple revision control system integration
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Customizable theme
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Take less memory
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Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD
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Neovim
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Still Vim but with upgraded features and some issues fixed
NeoVim was a complete rewrite of Vim, with new features added and underlying issues resolved thanks to the Vim code base. The keybindings and configuration are the same as Vim, so the switch can be pretty simple.
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Poor feature discoverability
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Better integration with external tools
The core text editor is "headless", meaning it's detached from the user-interface so other programs can hook into it. This enables better integration with IDEs and browsers, where "Vim mode" has typically been a poor substitute because it was a partial rewrite or a partial port at best. One of the advantages of Vim has always been ubiquity and Neovim makes it even more ubiquitous.
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High effort to customize
A lot of time and effort is put in to make it specific to your needs.
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Powerful plugin model
Vim plugins have always been useful, but tied to specific languages. Neovim's architecture provides better separation between plugins and the core product, so that plugins are completely flexible and can be written in any language.
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Requires Brain Mode Switching
When editing in vim, you have you use the vim keys; when editing in every other window on your PC, or in Word or Excel or other application, you need to use the standard system key combinations. Learning the vim combinations can actually make you SLOWER at everything else.
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Built-in terminal emulator
This avoids the user having to make any installations.
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Consume brain energy for editing that should be used for logic
Text editing in vim can be great once you've learned it, but it requires thinking about combination of commands. In other editors, you don't have to think about how to delete this part of code. You just think about how to implement a feature, what is a good design for this code. Even after you get used to using vim, it still requires your brain for editing.
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UI Agnostic
The core functionality is handled apart from the UI, meaning that Neovim can be embedded into any other GUI system, such as Atom.
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Ambiguity in extensive documentation
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Async plugin execution
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Limited cross platform support
Neovim is not available for many legacy platforms
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Active development community
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Split the VIM community
Moolenaar to be blamed for. If he opened up the development for vim to other bright minds, no fork would have happened. As it is mostly compatible with vim, it is not such a big issue.
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Opens a 3Gig Text File in a few seconds
Not many editors can open such a large text file so quickly.
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Poor support for external tooling
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Fast and light on memory usage
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.
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Easier to pick-up than ever
Don't believe it? Try typing vimtutor in your command line right now.
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Work in TUI (Text User Interface)
Neovim can work on terminal, on a remote server over ssh.
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Modern code base
As a refactor over Vim, Neovim has greatly improved its code base. For example, some functionality is handled by libuv, the same code base that powers Node.js.
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Comes with some good configurations out of the box
Some typical configurations most of VIM users make are default in Neovim.
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Even more powerful since 2019, because of additions such as vim-coc, TabNine, fzf, skim
Vim gets stronger every time command-line tools get stronger. This isn't even it's the final form.
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Config file is where it should be
I don't like having dotfiles or dotdirs in my homefolder unless they're needed. Configs should be in the .config dir in their respective folder.
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Built-in file-explorer and ability to make splits and edit multiple things simutaneously.
This makes editing multiple files at once, moving code around so easy.
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Treesitter and LSP
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Terminal mode is very convenient for testing code in a split window
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Linux, Windows, macOS, *nix, Android
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Apache
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