Slap – A Sublime-like terminal-based text editor
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HN comment order> Issues: [...] Slow on single cores, Raspberry Pi A text editor that is slow on 1GHz single-core machines. What a time to be alive.
Requires node.js ... EDIT: oops I'm getting downvoted, sorry for mentioning the platform. For the record, I think that JavaScript is the perfect choice of language for a terminal text editor. I can't think of a single better language and platform. :|
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 330
- Total comments
- 157
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-08-26 | Slap: Terminal-based text editorFirst breakout | kolodny | 110 | 39 |
| 2017-02-26 | Slap – a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor | sndean | 5 | 0 |
| 2017-05-28 | Slap – A Sublime-like terminal-based text editorBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | type0 | 214 | 118 |
| 2019-11-26 | Slap: Sublime-like terminal-based text editor | pcr910303 | 1 | 0 |