Review: Textadept

No, it has no chance of replacing Vim because it doesn't run in the terminal and it doesn't come out of the box on most *nix systems. Initially I don't like the title, because it is too vague.

The author gave out his naivete here: "Textadept is easily on par with Vim, Emacs and ST." I'm sorry, I know nothing about Textadept, but if Sublime Text is on par with Vim and Emacs then I'm a hipster in love with Coldplay.

Anyone still willing to change editors has not yet put much of a worthwhile investment of time in a good one. Choosing an editor is probably a lot like finding a soulmate.

I wish jps (ST developer) was more responsive. There are many small bugs and inconsistencies that are dragged through the versions, even the new beta. A centralized bug tracker would be a great first step. Submit a bug, have it acknowleged by jps, track its status. At the moment, you have no idea if jps even knows of a bug. Docs are also generally poor. apart from that, I really love ST, and I cannot see anything Textadept has that would make me switch.

nothing, i repeat, NOTHING can replace vim. Learn to use it, and you feel so superior to everybody and everything around you, you might even kick walls and shopping-carts for using something different!<p>I am just kidding, but seriously, every time i read such "i found a vim replacement"-articles, it turns out the author was not really a vim power user. It's strange, i know.

I may have missed it, but what features exactly does this have over Vim?

Tl;dr: An editor with lua patterns instead of regex find/replace. Thanks, I stick with (and pay for) my ST.

Great! I will try it out. It uses lpeg based lexers and a Lua api. Now my daily (coding) work is 99% Lua coding, so I feel rather comfortable with it.<p>I also like the file chooser (I am on Mac OS X), much faster for me than the system wide.<p>That's my "first 4 minutes" impression.

It doesn't even let me move without reaching to mouse or arrow keys. Hardly a vim replacement.

Nothing says "I've replaced VIM" like needing an X-11 server to edit a text file.

I don't know if I am missing a setting, but here on Windows, it feels a bit like TextAdept is fighting a loosing battle with ClearType (as in, I almost feel I should be wearing 3D glasses).<p>On the wiki there was only one other theme available for the latest 6.3 release, so I tried an older Solarized theme, but TA crashes when I try to load it.<p>I feel having to press a keyboard shortcut to bring up the auto-complete menu is a step back in productivity compared to ST, but the built-in API help is a nice idea.

I see some incarnation of this story pop up every few weeks here on HN. Why do people have it in for Vim? Fast, stable, free, ubiquitous, crazy efficient -- I don't get why some people are on this mission to replace it. Hell, should you really decide to pay money for Vim you be supporting <i>orphans in Uganda</i>.

This is very superficial of me but ... are there any screenshots of Textadept anywhere?

The Sublime Text review linked in this one was actually more interesting.

oh well, another round of editor wars :/