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 Nov 6, 2020

Vy
vy is a modal editor with a very modular architecture. vy is built on top of Tkinter which is one of the most productive graphical toolkits; It permits vy to have such a great programming interface for plugins.
171 Vy alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Discontinued
Last update and release on Nov 2020.
Vy VS Vis
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Chocolat
Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.
65 Chocolat alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
Chocolat Features
Coding
Multiple Cursors
Split windows
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+2
Chocolat VS Vis
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Howl
Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard.
153 Howl alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
Howl Features
1. Syntax Highlighting
2. Lightweight
3. Minimalistic
4. Customizable
5. Keyboard focused
6. Programmable
7. Keyboard Shortcuts
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Discontinued
The last version (0.6) is from April 2019.
Howl VS Vis
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Yi
Yi is a text editor written, and extensible in, the Haskell programming language. It can be made to behave like emacs or like vi.
33 Yi alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Yi Features
EMACS
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Discontinued
Project possibly abandoned. No activities for two years, and last release in 2017.In this GitHub issue, the developer discussed about the future of the project: https://github.com/yi-editor/yi/issues/1114
Yi VS Vis
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Hekapad
Hekapad is a free fully featured lightweight text editor for Windows. It can be used to replace the classic Notepad with some cool features.
67 Hekapad alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Windows
Hekapad Features
Lightweight
Multiple languages
Tabbed interface
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BDV Notepad
It is a comfortable text editor and a Windows Notepad replacement. In this program are combined: extended functionality, comfortable interface, flexible adjustment and all of this is absolutely free-of-charge!
98 BDV Notepad alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Windows
Discontinued
No changes since 2009. See http://www.bdvnotepad.com/products/bdv-notepad/
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MS Paint IDE
People joke about what IDE they use often, things like Word, MS Notepad, sometimes even Eclipse, and then often times MS Paint. People joke about MS Paint because it's not even a text editor, people joke about it because it doesn't have one feature in common with IDEs.
179 MS Paint IDE alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- IDE
Platforms
- Windows
- Microsoft Paint
MS Paint IDE Features
OCR
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+5
MS Paint IDE VS Vis
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edile
Edile is a basic but useful text editor for Linux, Mac OSX and other unix-like operating systems. Written in Python, Edile is implemented in a single source code file and requires no installation - you simply execute the source code file.
24 edile alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
edile Features
Portable
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Discontinued
Last release on 2010.
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IT-Edit
IT-Edit (Integrated Terminal Editor) provide a text editor with syntax highlight, line numbering and with the basics text editing functionalities, a file managing interface and terminals in the same window as the editor.
128 IT-Edit alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- IDE
Platforms
- Linux
+2
Discontinued
Last update was in May 2016.
IT-Edit VS Vis
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HAPedit
HAPedit is an acronym for Html Asp Php editor; a win32 text-mode editor useful for all developers of dynamic web pages.
133 HAPedit alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Windows
HAPedit Features
Portable
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Discontinued
No change since 2004. See http://hapedit.free.fr/news.php
HAPedit VS Vis
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Ox editor
Ox is a code editor. It was written in Rust using ANSI escape sequences. It assists developers with programming by providing several tools to speed up and make programming easier and a refreshing alternative to heavily bloated and resource hungry editors such as VS Code and...
25 Ox editor alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
Ox editor Features
Terminal-based
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Discontinued
Project discontinued. No updates in two years.Developer confirmed that project is no more alive due to technical issues: https://github.com/curlpipe/ox/issues/121
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4coder
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.).
169 4coder alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
4coder Features
Syntax Highlighting
Portable
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4coder VS Vis
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