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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. TextEdit icon
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    TextEdit

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    When you need to create text documents, TextEdit is a highly versatile word processor, including tools to format and layout your page, edit and stylize text, check spelling, create tables and lists, import graphics, work with HTML, and even add music and movie files.

    101 TextEdit alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac

    TextEdit Features

    1.  Rich text editing
    2.  Graphical User Interface
    3.  Plain text file
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    TextEdit main interface (Updated) (Noticed I used the same text thing as the other one?)
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  2. Aquamacs Emacs icon
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    Aquamacs Emacs

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    An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, R, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more...

    130 Aquamacs Emacs alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Aquamacs Emacs Features

    1.  Support for LaTeX
    2.  EMACS
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  4. SpaceNeovim icon
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    SpaceNeovim

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    SpaceNeovim is Spacemacs for Neovim . It's a fork of Spacevim that focuses on Neovim functions.

    27 SpaceNeovim alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    SpaceNeovim Features

    1.  Modular extensions
    2.  EMACS
    3.  Vim
    Discontinued

    Last GitHub commit on Mar 2020.

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  5. NEdit icon
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    NEdit

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    NEdit is a multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System, which combines a standard, easy to use, graphical user interface with the thorough functionality and stability required by users who edit text eight hours a day.

    38 NEdit alternatives
    The tabbed window interface

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    NEdit Features

    1.  Support for LaTeX
    C programming
    Syntax highlighting, line numbering and incremental search on
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    Split window mode
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  6. Kod icon
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    Kod

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    Kod is a programmers' editor for OS X

    Source available at http://github.com/rsms/kod

    Goals and features

    Fully concurrent — loading files, syntax highlighting, etc is distributed across available CPU cores. Minimal waiting time.

    Integrated scripting environment based on N...

    52 Kod alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Discontinued

    Last update was in 2011. https://github.com/rsms/kod

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  7. Plain Text Editor icon
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    Plain Text Editor

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    Simple distraction-free text editor without any rich text nonsense. The simplicity is a feature.

    53 Plain Text Editor alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Plain Text Editor Features

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Distraction-free
    4.  Simple text editor
    5.  Distraction-free Writing
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  9. 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...

    155 Vis alternatives
    Vis screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    Vis Features

    1.  Console-based
    2.  Support for regular expressions
    3.  Modal editor
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    TEA

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    TEA is free text editor for Linux, *BSD, OS/2, Windows, Haicu. It depends on Qt 4.6+ or Qt 5 or Qt6, zlib and, optionally, on Aspell or Hunspell. The old (but renewed) branch, TEA-GTK depends on GTK+ 3 and GtkSourceView 3.

    66 TEA alternatives
    TEA screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    TEA Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  C++
    3.  Tabbed interface
    4.  Built-in File Manager
    5.  Built-in Image converter
    6.  Built-in Image viewer
    7.  Built-in archiver
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