Textadept

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Textadept, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 6 complaints

Textadept chugs and lags when opening large minified files2026-03-04
Editor hangs when scrolling through a 148MiB HTML file2017-09-29
Hard to find a git support module in the module list2017-09-29
Horizontal scrolling is very slow on Mac with long lines2017-09-29
Autocomplete requires pressing a keyboard shortcut to open, slowing productivity2013-02-25
Trackpad scrolling feels unnatural and horizontal scrolling barely works on macOS2012-11-18