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Add to SafariWhen comparing Textadept vs neovim-gtk, the Slant community recommends Textadept for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal text editors?” Textadept is ranked 9th while neovim-gtk is ranked 23rd. The most important reason people chose Textadept is:
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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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 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.
Pro Full GTK3 integration
The UI is fully GTK3 compatable, so it themes to match your desktop and the functions are all in expected locations.
Pro Light UI stays out of the way but does provide all expected widgets
The overall UI is very trim and doesn't take up screen space for no reason, but all the expected bits like tabs and popups and even the command line have native widgets.
Pro Support for ligatures
Fonts with ligatures can be used to render code.
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.
