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Textadept vs Traditional Ex - Vi editor

A side-by-side look at Textadept and Traditional Ex - Vi editor. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Textadept

Textadept

Development

Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and customizable text editor for programmers. It has syntax highlighting and auto-completion for many programming languages and supports plugins for additional features.

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Traditional Ex - Vi editor

Traditional Ex - Vi editor

Development

The vi editor (short for visual editor) is a classic, ubiquitous text editor common to Unix-like systems. It has a modal, command-based interface, and supports extensive key bindings and scripting. It excels at text editing productivity once the user knows the commands.

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