McWig Alternatives

McWig is described as 'Modal, Vim-like text editor written in Go' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to McWig for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Snapcraft apps. The best McWig alternative is Vim, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like McWig are Neovim, GNU Emacs, GNU nano and Edit.

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McWig alternatives page was last updated Jun 14, 2025

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Vis
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Vis aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Text Editor
Platforms
Mac
Linux
BSD
V
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Is Vis a good alternative to McWig?
vile
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vile is a portable vi clone with extra features and other improvements. It's a text editor that attempts to combine the best aspects of the popular Emacs and vi editors.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Cygwin
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Is vile a good alternative to McWig?
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mg
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This is a portable version of the Mg editor from OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer who did a bunch of overhaul work on the version of Mg found in the OpenBSD base system.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Text Editor
Origin
Canada
Platforms
Mac
Linux
BSD
Cygwin
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Kilo Text Editor
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A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)
Application types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Origin
Italy
EU
Platforms
Linux
Mac
Windows
BSD
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Is Kilo Text Editor a good alternative to McWig?
Ki Editor
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Ki Editor is a modal editor that supports multi-cursor structural editing.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MPL-2.0)
Application type
Code Editor
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Rust
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Is Ki Editor a good alternative to McWig?
Bim text editor
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Bim is a Vim-inspired, terminal text editor originally built for ToaruOS but also available for Linux, Sortix, FreeBSD, and macOS. Bim aims to be lightweight and featureful with no external dependencies, providing a modern editing experience...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Linux
BSD
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Is Bim text editor a good alternative to McWig?
Zee
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Zee is a modern editor for the terminal, written in Rust. It is a highly experimental code. In the old tradition of text editor demos, here's what it currently looks like editing its own source code.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
M
Is Zee a good alternative to McWig?
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ad
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ad (pronounced A.D.) is an attempt at combining a modal editing interface of likes of vi and kakoune with the approach to extensibility of Plan9's Acme. Inside of ad text is something you can execute as well as edit.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application types
Code Editor
Text Editor
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
A
M
Is ad a good alternative to McWig?
dte
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A small and easy to use console text editor.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Text Editor
Platforms
Linux
BSD
Termux
Android
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Is dte a good alternative to McWig?
ptext
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A nano like text editor built with pure C.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)
Application type
Text Editor
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
M
Is ptext a good alternative to McWig?