Vim Alternatives

Vim is described as '("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' and is a leading Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Vim for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Vim alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Vim are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, Neovim and VSCodium.

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  1. Fresh editor icon
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    Fresh is a high-performance text editor for the terminal, made in Rust. It's built for speed, responsiveness and extensibility, incorporating features and concepts from the very rich history of successful editors.

    50 Fresh editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  2. Smultron icon
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    Smultron is a text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users. It should work perfectly for a whole variety of needs - like web programming, script editing, making a to do...

    70 Smultron alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  3. JOE icon
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    JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). JOE has been around since 1988 and comes standard with many Linux distributions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Lots of features, including macros, without the steep learning curve of Vim. Commands similar to WordStar and Borland Turbo languages, so they're short and easy to insert into macros. Help can be made continuously visible.

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    • JOE is Free and Open SourceVim is also Free and Open Source
  4. HippoEDIT icon
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    HippoEDIT is a powerful, fast and easy to use Windows text editor, primarily targeted at power users and programmers. It has modern and lightweight user interface, which supports different interface schemes, Multi Tab environment, seamless web and help browser, File Explorer and...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Orwell Dev-C++ icon
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    Orwell Dev-C++ is a Portable (IDE) Integrated Development Environment and Compiler for the C++ programming language.

    40 Orwell Dev-C++ alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. ERA icon
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    ERA is your go-to solution for streamlined note-taking and knowledge management. ERA makes it easier for you to write notes and documentation for your great projects. It was created to simplify your daily work.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. KWrite icon
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    KWrite is a text editor by KDE, based on the Kate's editor component.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  8. Kod icon
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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 No.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Tilde icon
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    Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. Example: copy current selection is Control-C; paste previously copied text is Control-V.

    127 Tilde alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. Intype icon
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    Intype is a powerful and intuitive code editor for Windows with lightning fast response. It is easily extensible and customizable, thanks in part to its support for scripting and native plug-ins. It makes development in any programming or scripting language quick and easy.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. metapad icon
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    Metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP/Vista with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepads features and much...

    107 metapad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Jove icon
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    Jove is a compact, powerful, Emacs-style text-editor. It provides the common emacs keyboard bindings, together with a reasonable assortment of the most popular advanced features (e.g., interactive shell windows, compile-it, language specific modes) while weighing in with CPU...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • MS-DOS
     
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