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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. TweakStyle icon
     16 likes

    An IDE tailor-made for web design and frontend development.

    88 TweakStyle alternatives
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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    TweakStyle Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Code Completion
    3.  Coding
    4.  Support for styluses
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  2.  4 likes

    Acme is a powerful text editor, development environment and textual-user-interface platform developed by Rob Pike originally for Plan 9 from Bell Labs research operating system, and now has ports available for all major platforms.

    106 acme alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  3. Peppermint icon
     34 likes

    Peppermint is a tweakable Swiss Army knife for Coding on your Mac.

    Features

    • 60+ different syntaxes supported
    • 10+ different themes
    • Lots of different plugins/tools for everything you need
    • Instantly Run/Preview your code in 26 languages, without ever leaving Peppermint
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    118 Peppermint alternatives
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    • Mac

    Peppermint Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Support for MarkDown
    3.  Autocompletion
    4.  Interpreter
    5.  Code Completion
    6.  Run code
    Discontinued

    Website, Mac App, and Twitter last updated in 2015Facebook discontinued

    Peppermint iconVim Icon

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  4. Pragtical icon
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    Pragtical is a code editor which was forked from Lite XL (also a fork of lite) written mostly in Lua with a focus on been practical rather than minimalist. The name of the editor is a mixture of the words pragmatic and practical, two words that properly define our development...

    6 Pragtical alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Support for Themes
    3.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Full-Text Search
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Portable
    4.  Autocompletion
    5.  Cross-Platform
    Pragtical iconVim Icon

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  5. Tincta icon
     11 likes

    Tincta is an elegant one-window text editor that is intuitive to use on personal tasks like writing blog posts, letters or grocery lists. But it also has all functionality you need for professional web design and programming.

    44 Tincta alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Tincta Features

    1.  Support for MarkDown
    Tincta iconVim Icon

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  6. Apimac Notepad icon
     5 likes

    Notepad for Mac let’s you organize any piece of text you may want to have at hand everyday. Designed from the ground up to support the latest Apple technologies, Notepad allows you to save, copy, paste and organize all your favorite snippets with ease.

    146 Apimac Notepad alternatives
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    • Mac

    Apimac Notepad Features

    1.  Integrated Search
    2.  Support for regular expressions
    3.  Snippets Manager
    4.  Snippets
    Apimac Notepad iconVim Icon

    Apimac Notepad VS Vim

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  7. xPad. icon
     4 likes

    xPad is the ultimate notepad, TextEdit and Stickies replacement for Apple's OS X. With a simple, easy-to-use interface and powerful multi-document features, xPad will quickly become your daily text editor of choice.

    86 xPad. alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeProprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    Discontinued

    xPad is no longer developed or maintained, but it can be still downloaded from its webpage.

    xPad. iconVim Icon

    xPad. VS Vim

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  8.  1 like

    Prelude is an enhanced Emacs 24 configuration that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful.

    28 Emacs Prelude alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Emacs Prelude Features

    1.  EMACS
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