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GUI Editor Alike Terminal Editor

Jul 30, 2014 · 1 minute read
Category: linux

Came across an interesting Github project today - a command line text editor that is designed to look and feel and largely behave like a GUI text editor such as Sublime.

Meet Slap

Installation is trivial assuming you already have node installed:

npm -g install slap

Once its installed you can open any file as you would with any other cli text editor

slap my-file.php

Immediate impressions are quite positive. A familiar feeling file browser in the left column is coupled with a text editing pane on the right that responds well to mouse clicks and familiar key presses. The text highlighting is very nice and things like brace matching are also included.

Unfortunately for me it seems that mouse usage often lead to garbage characters being inserted into the text which render it unusable for the moment though this could be an issue specific to my machine.

Definitely a project to keep an eye on though if you like trying new CLI text editors. That said I’m writing this post in SPF13 Vim which I’m pretty happy with :)