When comparing Codelobster vs Textadept, the Slant community recommends Codelobster for most people. In the question“What are the best simple text editors for Windows?” Codelobster is ranked 16th while Textadept is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose Codelobster is:
Including Laravel, Bootstrap. jQuery, WordPress, Drupal, Yii and so on.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Advanced support for all popular frameworks
Including Laravel, Bootstrap. jQuery, WordPress, Drupal, Yii and so on.
Pro Special support for JQuery through the jQuery plugin
The jQuery support (when you install the jQuery plugin) is great. It adds function definitions so that autocomplete works as intended. Furthermore, the IDE knows about the logic of the different libraries and frameworks and can understand that $(this)
refers to a jQuery instance.
Pro Great HTML, CSS and JavaScript autocomplete
Codelobster has great HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP autocomplete
Pro Free version available
There is a free version available for download; it comes with a lot of features that you would find in an IDE.
Pro Portable option available
Codelobster IDE offers a lightweight, portable option.
Pro Hovering over a CSS property shows you which browsers are supported by that property
This is a really nice feature as it immediately shows you the browsers that support a certain CSS property. Of course, it does not beat actual testing, but it's still a nice feature that saves developers a lot of time.
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 You need to sign up to get a free serial number for the free version
In order to use the free version of Codelobster, you have to sign up and get a free account. This is done to help stopping piracy, but it's still pretty jarring when all you want to do is install a program.
Con Expensive
For the Pro version (which includes all the available plug-ins), the cost is $99.95. The lite version (without plugins) is $39.95.
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.
