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When comparing nvALT vs Transmit 4, the Slant community recommends Transmit 4 for most people. In the question“What are the best power user tools for macOS?” Transmit 4 is ranked 4th while nvALT is ranked 34th. The most important reason people chose Transmit 4 is:
Exchange data with FTP, SFTP or WebDAV servers or your Amazon S3 storage.
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Pros
Pro Powerful search syntax
nvALT has a simple text box at the top (similar to that of a web browser) and when you start typing inside it, nvALT immediately displays a drop-down box of all the notes that contain the text you are searching for. The more you type, the more the search is narrowed down.
Pro Lightweight
Pro Free
Pro MultiMarkdown 3 support
Has built-in support for MultiMarkdown 3.
Pro Powerful note-taking features
nvALT is not only used for simple text editing but also as a powerful tool for taking notes, TODOs, phone numbers and every other piece of information that can be stored in a plain-text file.
This is because nvALT is not designed only as a tool to write text, but also as a powerful search and organize tool for plain-text files.
Pro Right to Left support
Pro Fast and powerful file exchange client
Exchange data with FTP, SFTP or WebDAV servers or your Amazon S3 storage.
Pro Supports Amazon S3 & WebDAV
In addition to FTP, allows exchanging data with SFTP or WebDAV servers or your Amazon S3 storage.
Pro Enable a server connection as a normal disk in your Finder
So you can access your storage without the Transmit client.
Pro FTP Sync
Scans local and remote for difference and only transfer modified files. It's not rsync, but it's the next best thing
Pro Can enable a server connection as a normal disk in your Finder
So you can access your storage without the Transmit client.
Cons
Con Not very powerful as far as text editing goes
nvALT's strength is its search feature. It has some basic text-editing features such as cut, paste, find-and-replace and so on. But it doesn't have any advanced text manipulation features available in other editors.
