Alternatives to Vim for Linux with any license

Atom

A hackable text editor for the 21st Century. At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Electron / Atom Shell
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Themes Customizable Package Control ... Community based GIT support Autocompletion Clean design Code completion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Folder Hierarchy Fuzzy Finder GitHub integration Gitlab integration Hackable Integrated Development Environment Interior Design Minimap Modular System Multiple cursors Support for Multiple programming languages Distraction-free UI Package Manager Plugin API Plugin manager Real time collaboration Separated workspaces Support for NodeJS Syntax Highlighting Tabbed interface Unit Testing Add a feature

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Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. ...

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
Lightweight Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Multiple cursors Package Control ... Customizable Syntax Highlighting Auto-saving Autocompletion Automatic packaging Code completion Directory structure Memory footprint Minimap Distraction-free UI Plugin API Portable Scriptwriting Assistant Syntax Highlighting Text editing Add a feature

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Visual Studio Code

Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience – without the need for a full IDE.

Free Open Source Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell Mac OS X
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Built-in Terminal Customizable ... Intellisense Syntax Highlighting Autocompletion Code completion Dark theme GIT support Support for Javascript Multiple cursors Bugs C# Scripting Embedded debugger Git integration MarkDown support Mercurial support Minimap Plugin support Run Android Apps on Desktop Version and Source control Add a feature

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- VSC has very good Vi extension what helps to mix Vi experience with well-integrated Microsoft solution. M_O_Z_G • 10 days ago
Brackets

Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The project was created and is...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell
Autocompletion Live Preview Built-in Level Editor Easy to switch encoding ... Easy to switch language highlighting Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Multiple languages Sidebar display of folders and files Streamlined interface Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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gedit

Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD GNOME ... OpenSolaris
Lightweight Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Spell checking ... Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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Geany

Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... Xfce
Lightweight Code navigation Customizable Support for Large File ... Minimalistic Portable Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

456 Like
GNU nano

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku
Command line interface Automatic Indentation Search and replace Terminal-based Add a feature

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GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD
Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Package Control Scripting ... Self-documenting Syntax Highlighting Terminal-based Add a feature

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Kate

Text editor for the KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax highlighting. It is extensible with plugins. Features a MDI interface. ...

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD KDE
Code formatting Support for regular expressions Syntax Highlighting Tabbed interface Add a feature

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Neovim

Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to: Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions. Split the work between multiple...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android BSD
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Add a feature

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- It's basically Vim, but with improvements like plugins that don't halt the user interface. At least on Linux, I'd recommend Neovim over Vim. Nyquist • Aug 2017
- Neovim is "literally the future of Vim". Compatibility with Vim, but built from the ground up for asynchronous plugins. A good replacement for GVim is all that's missing. Guest • Nov 2017
- Lots of cleanup to terminal handling, concurrency so plugins don't choke the UI. alerque • 7 days ago
Aptana Studio

Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
Support for FTP Real time collaboration Add a feature

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- Discontinued Aptana is still in development on GitHub but latest version, 3.6.1, was released in October 2014. It lacks Java 8/9 features, as well as newer Javascript and HTML 5 features.
UltraEdit

UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

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SciTE

SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running...

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce
No features added Add a feature

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Light Table

Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It provides the real time feedback we need to not...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell
Clean design Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Add a feature

51 Like
- Discontinued Appears to be abandoned. Last release was Jan 2016
Leafpad

Leafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD Cygwin MacPorts
Drag n drop Lightweight Add a feature

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