When comparing Chocolatapp vs EmEditor, the Slant community recommends Chocolatapp for most people. In the question“What are the best programming text editors?” Chocolatapp is ranked 54th while EmEditor is ranked 72nd. The most important reason people chose Chocolatapp is:
Viewing two files at once is easy in Chocolatapp. Just select them both in the sidebar.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Split editing
Viewing two files at once is easy in Chocolatapp. Just select them both in the sidebar.
Pro Code completion
Pro Great user interface
Pro Multiple cursors and selections
Pro Live error checking
Chocolat constantly checks your code as you’re writing it. That means no more interruptions from rude parse errors.
Pro Code folding
Pro Built-in language documentation
Pro Live previewing of HTML and Markdown
Pro Light application
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 Only available for Mac
It's only available for OSX.
Con Paid application
Chocolatapp is not a free application.
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.