When comparing Zed vs Textadept, the Slant community recommends Textadept for most people. In the question“Which text editors are the easiest to customize (by writing an extension / plugin) ?” Textadept is ranked 2nd while Zed is ranked 7th. 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.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Customizable themes
Zed provides you with both light and dark themes out of the box. You can also develop your own with CSS.
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.
Cons
Con No auto-complete
There is no auto-complete support built in for JavaScript.
Con Auto-save could be more stable
Auto-save is a great feature, but there is no way to disable it.
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.
