med VS gap

Compare med vs gap and see what are their differences.

gap

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med gap
6 1
87 19
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3.4 2.8
6 months ago 6 months ago
D Objective-C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later -
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med

Posts with mentions or reviews of med. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-27.
  • Med: Micro Emacs in D
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Mar 2023
  • A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, text editor written in C, and Lua
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2022
    Here's another one with a very small footprint:

    https://github.com/DigitalMars/med

    It's the one I use every day. The executable on Windows is a little over a meg. It also works on Linux and Mac.

  • A case against syntax highlighting
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2021
  • I Still Use Plain Text for Everything.
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jun 2021
    I fixed my editor so that it recognizes URLs, and underlines them. Clicking on one brings up a browser on that site. I should have done that 20 years ago.

    No special syntax is required. It just works. I've since been adding URLs in comments all over my code, for references. It's marvelous.

    It could be extended to recognize filename.jpg and filename.mp3 to display or play those files, too. Again with no special syntax whatsoever. It just works.

    https://github.com/DigitalMars/med

  • The Lost Apps of the 80s
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Apr 2021
    I still use microEmacs, which floated around the intertoobs in the 1980s. Of course, I've modified it substantially over the years, most recently adding color syntax highlighting and Unicode.

    D version:

    https://github.com/DigitalMars/med

    C version:

    https://github.com/DigitalMars/me

    The "extension language" is it's so easy to just add some code and recompile it, there's no point in adding an extension language.

    I like microEmacs a lot because I can use it remotely over a tty interface.

  • Hecto: Build your own text editor in Rust
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2021
    Doing one yourself is fun. MicroEmacs drifted around NNTP in the 80s, and I snagged a copy and began modifying it to taste. I've been using it ever since. The latest version was ported to D:

    https://github.com/DigitalMars/med

    It's a very easy editor to understand and extend.

gap

Posts with mentions or reviews of gap. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-04.
  • The Lost Apps of the 80s
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Apr 2021
    Flexisheet was created to be a clone of Improv for Gnustep, but it was abandoned long ago. You could compiled the source.

    https://flexisheet-orphans.blogspot.com/2006/10/circa-2002-l...

    Sourcecode : https://github.com/gnustep/gap/tree/master/user-apps/FlexiSh...

    Review of alternatives: https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=546563

What are some alternatives?

When comparing med and gap you can also consider the following projects:

Joplin - Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

FluidFramework - Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications

libui-ng - libui-ng: a portable GUI library for C. "libui for the next generation"

me - Micro Emacs in C

ledger - Double-entry accounting system with a command-line reporting interface

lite-xl-plugin-manager - A lite-xl plugin manager.

lite-xl-ide - A set of plugins to convert lite-xl into a proper IDE.

hledger - Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.

almost-mono-themes - Almost monochromatic themes for emacs in a few variants

SublimeDebugger - Graphical Debugger for Sublime Text for debuggers that support the debug adapter protocol

lite-xl-simplified - Lite XL with a simplified build process and file structure.