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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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Vim alternatives page was last updated Sep 5, 2024
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  1. Thunderpad icon
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    Thunderpad

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    Thunderpad (formerly Textpad) is a simple, general-purpose and cross-platform text editor written in C++ using the Qt libraries. Thunderpad aims to be faster and more lightweight than most text editors, but as useful as them.

    117 Thunderpad alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Thunderpad Features

    1.  Distraction-free
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Lightweight
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    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed since 2015. Latest versions can be still downloaded from SourceForge and GitHub

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    Chocolat

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    Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.

    65 Chocolat alternatives
    Text Editing

    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Chocolat Features

    1.  Coding
    2.  Multiple Cursors
    3.  Split windows
    Split Editing
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    Languages
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  4. ne icon
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    ne

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    ne is a text editor based on the POSIX standard that runs (we hope) on almost any UN*X machine. ne is easy to use for the beginner, but powerful and fully configurable for the wizard, and most sparing in its resource usage.

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    ne Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Lightweight
    3.  Syntax Highlighting
    4.  Support for Large File
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  5. Vy icon
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    Vy

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    vy is a modal editor with a very modular architecture. vy is built on top of Tkinter which is one of the most productive graphical toolkits; It permits vy to have such a great programming interface for plugins.

    171 Vy alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued

    Last update and release on Nov 2020.

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  6. Yi icon
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    Yi

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    Yi is a text editor written, and extensible in, the Haskell programming language. It can be made to behave like emacs or like vi.

    33 Yi alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Yi Features

    1.  EMACS
    The GTK frontend
    Discontinued

    Project possibly abandoned. No activities for two years, and last release in 2017.In this GitHub issue, the developer discussed about the future of the project: https://github.com/yi-editor/yi/issues/1114

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    edile

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    Edile is a basic but useful text editor for Linux, Mac OSX and other unix-like operating systems. Written in Python, Edile is implemented in a single source code file and requires no installation - you simply execute the source code file.

    24 edile alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    edile Features

    1.  Portable
    Discontinued

    Last release on 2010.

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    4coder

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    4coder is a minimalist, cross platform, programmable, code editing environment, catering to the needs of low level programmers. It allows you to use one work flow across Windows, Linux, and Mac (with the exception of your debugger... for now.).

    169 4coder alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    4coder Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Portable
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    Ox editor

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    Ox is a code editor. It was written in Rust using ANSI escape sequences. It assists developers with programming by providing several tools to speed up and make programming easier and a refreshing alternative to heavily bloated and resource hungry editors such as VS Code and...

    25 Ox editor alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    Ox editor Features

    1.  Terminal-based
    Discontinued

    Project discontinued. No updates in two years.Developer confirmed that project is no more alive due to technical issues: https://github.com/curlpipe/ox/issues/121

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