slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing from the terminal easier. It has:
- first-class mouse support (even over an SSH connection)
- a Sublime-like file sidebar
- double-click to select word, highlight other occurrences
- configurable Sublime-like keybindings* (Ctrl+S save, Ctrl+Z undo, etc.)
- copying/pasting with OS clipboard support
- infinite undo/redo
- syntax highlighting for 100+ languages
- bracket matching
- autoindentation
- heavily customizeable via plugins
- ... many other features that will make you leave nano, vim, and emacs behind
$ curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/slap-editor/slap/master/install.sh | sh
If you already have NodeJS installed:
$ sudo npm install -g slap
$ slap fish.c
$ slap fish1.c fish2.c
$ slap redfish/ # open dir in browser
$ slap # new file in current dir
Use ~/.slap/config
to override the defaults in slap/slap.ini:
[header.style]
bg = "red"
Alternatively, pass options in via command line:
$ slap --header.style.bg red file.c
Slap is fully customizeable and supports plugins written in JS. You can place
single JS files, or NodeJS packages, into ~/.slap/plugins/
.
To write your own plugin, a good starting point is
slap-clipboard-plugin.
Please note that plugin packages must have "keywords": ["slap-plugin"]
in
package.json
.
iTerm2 works best. Terminal.app does not support some default keybindings but mouse support works well with the MouseTerm SIMBL plugin.
If you are using X.Org, ensure xclip is installed for OS clipboard support.
Most terminal emulators in Windows do not support mouse events, PuTTY being a notable exception. In Cygwin, slap crashes on startup due to joyent/node#6459.
Join us in #slap on Freenode for troubleshooting, theme/plugin/core development, or palm strike discussion of any nature.
Unfortunately most terminal emulators do not support certain keystrokes and as
such there is no way to handle them. These include C-backspace
, S-home/end
,
and S-pageup/down
. Most of these actions have alternate keybindings, inspired
by emacs and other editors, but if you find one that doesn't work, please
submit an issue!
Try --editor.highlight false
or adding the following to ~/.slap/config
:
[editor]
highlight = false
If that doesn't improve performance, please run with --perf.profile true
and
submit an issue with the newly-created v8.log
file.