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Add to SafariWhen comparing RJ TextEd vs nano, the Slant community recommends nano for most people. In the question“What are the best programming text editors?” nano is ranked 14th while RJ TextEd is ranked 59th. The most important reason people chose nano is:
Nano includes only the bare minimum of functionality needed to edit documents making it very simple.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Very powerful web (PHP, ASP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS) development editor.
The functionality extends beyond text files and includes support for CSS/HTML editing with integrated CSS/HTML preview, spell checking, auto completion, HTML validation, templates and more.
Pro Full-featured
RJ TextEd is a full-featured portable text editor with code auto-completion, syntaxt highlighting, spell checker, auto indentation, and much more.
Pro Freeware
RJ TextEd is released as freeware.
Pro Easy to use
Nano includes only the bare minimum of functionality needed to edit documents making it very simple.
Pro Built-in cheat sheet for shortcuts
Shortcuts for common commands are shown at the bottom of the editor.
Pro Available on almost every Linux system as default
Similar to vi (vim), you can find nano on most Unix-like systems (even on Cygwin).
Pro Most of the languages supported
Syntax coloring is available for most of the programming language.
Pro Lightweight and bug free
Very stable editor that never hangs / leaks or crashes.
Cons
Con Windows only
Only the Windows version of RJ TextEd is available.
Con Limited feature set
While nano is fine for writing blog posts or doing quick modifications, it's probably not suitable for programmers or someone who needs to work on an editor for an extensive period of time.
Con Uncommon keybindings
Nano uses a strange set of default keybindings, which is totally different than Vim, Emacs, VSCode and Sublime.
