If you were looking for an easy-to-use Sublime Text-like editor for the terminal, you’re in luck. slap is a console based text editor with features (plus look & feel) closely resembling Sublime Text. As a matter of fact, it’s the stated goal of the project.
Features
- Excellent mouse support (even over SSH)
- A Sublime-like file sidebar
- Double-click to select word, highlight other occurrences
- Configurable Sublime-like keybinds (Ctrl+S save, Ctrl+Z undo, etc.)
- Copy/paste with OS clipboard support
- Infinite undo/redo
- Syntax highlighting for 100+ languages
- Bracket matching
- Auto-indentation
- Heavily customizable via JS plugins
- Many other features
Installation
No standard package installer for Ubuntu yet. Run the following to install from script:
$ sudo apt-get install xclip $ curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/slap-editor/slap/master/install.sh | sh
Usage
Open a new file:
$ slap
Open multiple files:
$ slap file1 file2 file3
Open directory in browser:
$ slap mydir/
Settings go to ~/.slap/config:
[header.style] bg = "red"
On GitHub: slap
