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Vim Alternatives
Apps similar to Vim include Notepad++, which is free and open source. Other options are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Zed Editor. There's no shortage of Text Editors like Vim, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, the web and Android.
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BabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Windows
- PortableApps.com
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PolyEdit Lite is a multipurpose word processor and text editor for Microsoft Windows. It is fast, small, and easy-to-use.
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- Windows
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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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
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Italy- EU
Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.
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- Mac
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ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed to serve as a secondary tool for software developers.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows
Notepad-like VB.Net multi-tab source code editor for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 that supports ASM, ASP.Net, Boo, C#, C++, CSS, HTML, INI, Java, JavaScript, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB.Net, XML and plain text files.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows
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.).
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Mac
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United States
- 50 notePad++++ alternatives
A native macOS text editor with syntax highlighting for 50+ languages, Markdown WYSIWYG, JSON/YAML support, regex and Column Mode, custom scripts, batch processing, and optional AI assistance.
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- Mac
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26 Zee alternativesZee 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.
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- BSD
112 Nota (Maui Applications) alternativesNota is a convergent text editor. Nota is easy to use, with a simple interface by default. Nota supports syntax highlighting for various languages, focus mode, annotations, configurable fonts, colors, a integrated side panel and more.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
Mexico
HTML Kit is a full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and other text files. 400+ plugins are available for it, including HTML Tidy for creating standards-compliant web pages. HTML-Kit has received 95% thumbs up on Download.
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- Windows
