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Add to SafariWhen comparing Lime 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 Lime is ranked 80th. The most important reason people chose qemacs (for quick emacs) is:
Including e.g. Chinese.
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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 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 Doesn't have an installer
You need to build Lime from source yourself, which may be out of many people's skill level.
