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There are many alternatives to Vim for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac Text Editor alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Vim and loads of them are Text Editors available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac Text Editor alternatives to Vim are Neovim, VSCodium, Sublime Text and GNU Emacs.

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Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a GUI version called GVim.

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  1. Haroopad icon
     69 likes

    Haroopad is a markdown enabled document processor for creating web-friendly documents. You can author various formats of documents such as blog article, slide, presentation, report, and e-mail as if experts did.

    105 Haroopad alternatives
    Haroopad screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Haroopad Features

    1.  Support for MarkDown
    2.  Vim key mapping
    3.  Publishing
    Discontinued

    The last update was in December 2018.

    Haroopad iconVim Icon

    Haroopad VS Vim

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  2. Nova icon
     7 likes

    The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.

    129 Nova alternatives
    Nova screenshot 1

    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Nova Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Lightweight
    3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    4.  Autocompletion
    5.  Live Preview
    6.  Works Offline
    7.  Dark Mode
    8.  Support for Themes
    9.  Support for FTP
    Nova iconVim Icon

    Nova VS Vim

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  3. Notepad Next icon
     6 likes

    A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++. Releases are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

    56 Notepad Next alternatives
    Notepad Next screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Notepad Next Features

    1.  Lightweight
    Notepad Next iconVim Icon

    Notepad Next VS Vim

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  4. Spacemacs icon
     27 likes

    Spacemacs is an beautiful Emacs distribution designed for both GNU Emacs and Vim users.

    40 Spacemacs alternatives
    Spacemacs screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Spacemacs Features

    1.  EMACS
    2.  Vim
    3.  Vim key mapping
    4.  Emacs integration
    Spacemacs iconVim Icon

    Spacemacs VS Vim

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  5. ecode icon
     4 likes

    ecode is a lightweight multi-platform code editor designed for modern hardware with a focus on responsiveness and performance. It has been developed with the hardware-accelerated eepp GUI, which provides the core technology for the editor.

    55 ecode alternatives
    ecode screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Top ecode Features

    1.  No Tracking
    2.  Lightweight
    3.  Git Support
    4.  Works Offline
    5.  Autocompletion
    6.  Dark Mode
    7.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    8.  Portable
    9.  Syntax Highlighting
    10.  Ad-free
    11.  No registration required
    12.  Color Palette
    ecode iconVim Icon

    ecode VS Vim

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  6. wxMEdit icon
     27 likes

    wxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from MadEdit . It adds automatic updates, bookmarks, selecting lines with a tripple click, a FreeBASIC syntax file, more supported encodings (L1, CP850, CP437 etc, KOI8, UTF-x), better...

    79 wxMEdit alternatives
    wxMEdit screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    wxMEdit Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Hex Editor
    Discontinued

    Last GitHub commit on Aug 2019 and last release on Nov 2016.

    wxMEdit iconVim Icon

    wxMEdit VS Vim

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  7. MacVim icon
     32 likes

    MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to macOS. MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as:

    90 MacVim alternatives
    MacVim screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac

    MacVim Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Vim
    MacVim iconVim Icon

    MacVim VS Vim

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  8. JOE icon
     18 likes

    JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). JOE has been around since 1988 and comes standard with many Linux distributions.

    62 JOE alternatives
    JOE screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    JOE Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Support for Large File
    Discontinued

    Last update on Apr 2021 and last release on Jan 2018.

    JOE iconVim Icon

    JOE VS Vim

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    Comments about JOE as an Alternative to Vim
     
    Guest

    Lots of features, including macros, without the steep learning curve of Vim. Commands similar to WordStar and Borland Turbo languages, so they're short and easy to insert into macros. Help can be made continuously visible.

    Positive commentJun 13, 2019
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    • JOE is Free and Open SourceVim is also Free and Open Source
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