Vis Alternatives

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

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Vis

Text Editor
Free • Open Source

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...

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Vis alternatives page was last updated Feb 15, 2023

Diakonos
Diakonos is a powerful and easy to use console-based text editor.
150 Diakonos alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
Diakonos Features
Command line interface
Console-based
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NEdit
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 ...
38 NEdit alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
NEdit Features
Support for LaTeX
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Text
Text.app is a simple text editor for Chrome OS and Chrome. It's fast, lets you open multiple files at once, has syntax highlighting, and saves to Google Drive on Chrome OS.
100 Text alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Windows
- Online
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
Text Features
Works Offline
Syntax Highlighting
Google Drive integration
Sync with Dropbox
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Scribes
A text editor for GNOME that combines simplicity with power.

Scribes focuses on streamlining your workflow. It does so by ensuring common and repetitive operations are intelligently automated. And also by eliminating f...
113 Scribes alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Linux
Scribes Features
Syntax Highlighting
Gtk
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Discontinued
Last release on 2011.
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Plain Text Editor
Simple distraction-free text editor without any rich text nonsense. The simplicity is a feature.
53 Plain Text Editor alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Mac
Plain Text Editor Features
1. Lightweight
2. Dark Mode
3. Distraction-free
4. Simple text editor
5. Distraction-free Writing
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TEA
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...
65 TEA alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- IDE
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
TEA Features
1. Syntax Highlighting
2. C++
3. Tabbed interface
4. Built-in File Manager
5. Built-in Image converter
6. Built-in Image viewer
7. Built-in archiver
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Kod
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 acro...
52 Kod alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Mac
Discontinued
Last update was in 2011. https://github.com/rsms/kod
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Nota (Maui Applications)
Nota 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...
119 Nota (Maui Applications) alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Linux
Nota (Maui Applications) Features
Syntax Highlighting
Lightweight
Minimalistic
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Thunderpad
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...
117 Thunderpad alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Thunderpad Features
Distraction-free
Syntax Highlighting
Lightweight
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Discontinued
The project is no longer developed since 2015. Latest versions can be still downloaded from SourceForge and GitHub
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SuperbEdit
Extensible and light programmers' text editor.

SuperbEdit features Syntax Highlighting, Folder Management, Source Control Integration and much more...

Extensible SuperbEdit has been developed from the start to be ...
55 SuperbEdit alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Windows
SuperbEdit Features
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
Syntax Highlighting
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Editor
Simple Android text editor.
74 Editor alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
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Editor VS Vis
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- Editor is the most popular Android Tablet alternative to Vis.
- Editor is Free and Open SourceVis is also Free and Open Source

ne
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 us...
16 ne alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
ne Features
Command line interface
Lightweight
Syntax Highlighting
Support for Large File
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