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Add to SafariWhen comparing EverEdit vs qemacs (for quick emacs), the Slant community recommends qemacs (for quick emacs) for most people. In the question“What are the best programming text editors?” qemacs (for quick emacs) is ranked 42nd while EverEdit is ranked 58th. The most important reason people chose qemacs (for quick emacs) is:
Including e.g. Chinese.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Lightweight
EverEdit is lightweight, making it very fast.
Pro Extendable with plugins
EverEdit is extremely powerful and extends through various plugins that add a lot of useful features to it.
Pro Good regexp
Pro Input methods for most (human) languages
Including e.g. Chinese.
Pro Terminal and graphics mode
Supports the terminal mode with 'qemacs -nw' and a graphics mode.
Pro Good documentation and help
- Context sensitive shortcut help on F1.
- Good online documentation.
Pro Comfortable file browser
Easy to open and manage files (dired-mode).
Pro Supports many editing modes besides text
- Hex
- HTML / CSS
- Image
- Audio/video (maybe not the most sought after mode in a text editor, but, well, it's there)
Pro Full UTF-8 support
Including bi-directional writing.
Pro Super lightweight and fast
Pro Emacs like key-bindings
Use your muscle memory if you know Emacs already.
Cons
Con Windows only
EverEdit is not available for Linux and/or Mac.
