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CotEditor vs Slap: What are the differences?
CotEditor: Open Source Plain-Text Editor for OS X. CotEditor is a lightweight plain-text editor for OS X; Slap: Sublime-like terminal-based text editor. slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing from the terminal easier.
CotEditor and Slap belong to "Text Editor" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by CotEditor are:
- Syntax Highlighting
- Powerful Find & Replace
- Setting via Click
On the other hand, Slap provides the following key features:
- first-class mouse support
- GUI editor-like keybindings*
- copying/pasting with OS clipboard support
CotEditor and Slap are both open source tools. Slap with 5.08K GitHub stars and 208 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than CotEditor with 2.77K GitHub stars and 252 GitHub forks.
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Pros of CotEditor
- Excellent support for Japanese encoding3
Pros of Slap
- Great for SSH sessions and git commit messages2
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What is CotEditor?
CotEditor is a lightweight plain-text editor for OS X.
What is Slap?
slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing from the terminal easier.
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BBEdit
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Git
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GitHub
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