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CotEditor vs GNU Emacs

A side-by-side look at CotEditor and GNU Emacs. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

CotEditor

CotEditor

Office & Productivity

CotEditor is a lightweight plain-text editor for macOS. It has a simple and intuitive interface with useful features like syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, and file comparison. It's open-source, customizable, and supports many text encodings.

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GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs

Development

GNU Emacs is a popular, open source text editor and computing environment. It runs on most operating systems and provides extensibility through an Emacs Lisp interpreter.

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