Vim Alternatives for Mac
There are many alternatives to Vim for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac 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 available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Vim are Neovim, VSCodium, Sublime Text and GNU Emacs.
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- Free • Open Source
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License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
SpaceNeovim Features
- Modular extensions
- EMACS
- Vim
DiscontinuedLast GitHub commit on Mar 2020.
SpaceNeovim VS Vim
Is SpaceNeovim a good alternative to Vim? - 9 likes38 NEdit alternatives
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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
NEdit Features
- Support for LaTeX
NEdit VS Vim
Is NEdit a good alternative to Vim? - 1 like53 Plain Text Editor alternatives
Simple distraction-free text editor without any rich text nonsense. The simplicity is a feature.
Plain Text Editor Features
- Lightweight
- Dark Mode
- Distraction-free
- Simple text editor
- Distraction-free Writing
Plain Text Editor VS Vim
Is Plain Text Editor a good alternative to Vim? - 2 likes155 Vis alternatives
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...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
Vis Features
- Console-based
- Support for regular expressions
- Modal editor
Vis VS Vim
Is Vis a good alternative to Vim? - 22 likes52 Kod alternatives
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...
DiscontinuedLast update was in 2011. https://github.com/rsms/kod
Kod VS Vim
Is Kod a good alternative to Vim? - 7 likes66 TEA alternatives
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.
TEA Features
- Syntax Highlighting
- C++
- Tabbed interface
- Built-in File Manager
- Built-in Image converter
- Built-in Image viewer
- Built-in archiver
TEA VS Vim
Is TEA a good alternative to Vim? - 10 likes117 Thunderpad alternatives
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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Thunderpad Features
- Distraction-free
- Syntax Highlighting
- Lightweight
DiscontinuedThe project is no longer developed since 2015. Latest versions can be still downloaded from SourceForge and GitHub
Thunderpad VS Vim
Is Thunderpad a good alternative to Vim? - 12 likes65 Chocolat alternatives
Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
Chocolat Features
- Coding
- Multiple Cursors
- Split windows
Chocolat VS Vim
Is Chocolat a good alternative to Vim?