neovim-gtk vs pico
When comparing neovim-gtk vs pico, the Slant community recommends pico for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal text editors?” pico is ranked 18th while neovim-gtk is ranked 23rd. The most important reason people chose pico is:
All command characters are shown at the bottom of the editor.
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Pros
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.
Pro Built-in cheat sheet for shortcuts
All command characters are shown at the bottom of the editor.
Pro Easy to use
Pico includes only the bare minimum of functionality needed to edit documents making it very simple.
Cons
Con No way to override command characters
Characters such as ^D, ^T, ^L, etc will always be interpreted as commands and there's no way to write them in text.
Con Lacks some commonly expected functionality even for a basic editor
Pico lacks search and replace functionality as well as the ability to work work with multiple files at the same time.