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Add to SafariWhen comparing Chocolatapp 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 Chocolatapp is ranked 54th. The most important reason people chose qemacs (for quick emacs) is:
Including e.g. Chinese.
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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 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 Only available for Mac
It's only available for OSX.
Con Paid application
Chocolatapp is not a free application.
