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Add to SafariWhen comparing Lime vs EmEditor, the Slant community recommends EmEditor for most people. In the question“What are the best programming text editors?” EmEditor is ranked 72nd while Lime is ranked 80th. The most important reason people chose EmEditor is:
Comparing files is intuitive and works well.
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Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Free and open source
Lime is open source and free to use, unlike Sublime.
Pro Almost as good as Sublime Text
Lime is very useful, powerful, and clean. It has a sleek UI (as compared to Sublime) but is generally quite similar, if not better in some respects, than Sublime Text.
Pro Excellent file compare functionality
Comparing files is intuitive and works well.
Pro Very good at handling (large) CSV files
Quickly opens even very large CSVs and converts data to columns according to delimiter. Fast Search/Replace operations.
Pro Opens very large files very fast
Cons
Con Doesn't have an installer
You need to build Lime from source yourself, which may be out of many people's skill level.
Con Windows-only
Con Default themes and syntax coloring not the prettiest
Some syntax highlighting colors and/or themes don't look very good - but can be customised.
