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Another one to try is Howl (http://howl.io)

It's newish but very stable and uses Lua (not Javascript) as the extension language. It is very lightweight and faster than Atom.

Disclosure: I'm one of the contributors.

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This looks really nice. I'm gonna try to compile on OSX, shouldn't be too hard. It seems to be a modern vim/emacs with no bloated GUI, and I'm surprised by the relatively small number of LoC!

Thanks! See this comment for instructions on how to build on OSX (or what worked last time :)

https://github.com/howl-editor/howl/issues/68#issuecomment-1...

This looks cool; kind of like modern Vim/Emacs hybrid. I especially like the filename search, which is lacking in Atom.

Thank you. Yes it's kind of like a modernized Emacs with a very nice API in Lua. I haven't used Vim so can't say about the similarity there but it does have a Vim mode.

Do you mean the normal file browser or the recursive search (`ctrl_s`)? I did find Atom a bit lacking for general quick file browsing as well as previewing and usability of things like replace commands.

I mean the ability to list all files recursively in a buffer and then search that buffer, something Emacs got right.

Ah yes - I find that really useful too!

Do you know how Emacs handles too many recursive listings? Howl just truncates the search after 3 seconds and I'm wondering if there's something better we can do.

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