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Review of the Text Editors
Use Case: To create .html pages to document my work.
Common features amongst all these editors is the views (project view, tabs), plugin manager, multi-language support.
Notepad++ was the fastest to install, load and use. It was my preferred editor on Windows. The installer is only 2.73MB making it the lightest text editor in this group. In a review, I read its written in C++, making it the fastest across the board.
Atom is by the same guys who created GIT, hence the GIT Desktop software immediately recognises the software, allowing and infact encouraging you to edit with Atom. At about 99MB for the installer, it is HUGE compared to the others. Based on Chromium, it allows for way more plugins to be created than the others. It loads slower, but has more plugins than the others.
Sublime Text is about 10MB, and I loved it on the Mac OS. It offers the same features as the others, and out of the box, offers:
- a helpful preview of the document on the side to give you an idea of the size and your location in the document
- Autocomplete as you type, not only completing syntax, but also creating the closing code
Brackets I have used this time. It offers a decent autocomplete function, though, not as good as Sublime Text in my opinion. It has a live preview which is GREAT, speeding up web development.