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gedit vs Slap: What are the differences?

What is gedit? Text editor for the GNOME desktop environment, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. gedit is the GNOME text editor. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.

What is 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.

gedit and Slap can be categorized as "Text Editor" tools.

Some of the features offered by gedit are:

  • Full support for internationalized text (UTF-8)
  • Configurable syntax highlighting for various languages (C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, Python, Perl and many others)
  • Undo/Redo

On the other hand, Slap provides the following key features:

  • first-class mouse support
  • GUI editor-like keybindings*
  • copying/pasting with OS clipboard support

Slap is an open source tool with 5.08K GitHub stars and 208 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Slap's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of gedit
Pros of Slap
  • 10
    Fast
  • 9
    Lightweight
  • 9
    GNOME Integration
  • 5
    Syntax Highlighting
  • 3
    Immediately starts
  • 3
    Tabbed UI
  • 2
    Free
  • 2
    I love gnu-linux
  • 1
    External tools and snippets
  • 1
    Supports every programming language
  • 1
    Spell Check
  • 1
    If you took cs50, you know gedit
  • 1
    Old gedit based on gtk2
  • 2
    Great for SSH sessions and git commit messages

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Cons of gedit
Cons of Slap
  • 2
    GTK3
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    What is gedit?

    gedit is the GNOME text editor. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.

    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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