Vim Alternatives

Vim Alternatives

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15 best vim alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android and more. Vim alternative list source: vim.org

15 alternativesFree, Open Source, Commercial, Freemium Windows, Linux, Mac, Android
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Compare top-ranked Vim alternatives by score, license, and supported platforms.

AlternativeScoreLicensePlatforms
Notepad++100% 8429 votesFree, Open SourceWindows
Sublime Text100% 3439 votesFreemiumWindows, Mac, Linux
Atom100% 1813 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
Gedit99% 1259 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
Visual Studio Code100% 1001 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
Geany99% 923 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
Brackets99% 761 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
Aptana Studio99% 651 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
GNU Emacs99% 591 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
TextMate99% 497 votesOpen Source, CommercialMac
GNU nano99% 405 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
PSPad98% 385 votesFreeWindows
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Notepad++

Score: 100%

FreeOpen SourceWindows
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Notepad is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad ++ is written in C and uses pure Win32 API and STL to ensure a higher execution speed and smaller program size. User-friendly by optimizing as many routines as possible without loss of the Editor, and to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. Features:Free,Open,Source,Windows,
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Sublime Text

Score: 100%

FreemiumWindowsMacLinux
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Any HTML and prose Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code text file. Youll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. To Sublime Text can be evaluated without a time limit the last can be downloaded for free, however a license must be purchased to continue use. Features:Freemium,Mac,Windows,Linux
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Atom

Score: 100%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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21. A hackable text editor for centuries. GitHub, by the way we want, we will build a text editor. You can customize it to do something, but on the first day, without ever a vehicle touching at the same time efficient to use a configuration file. The nucleus of an atom, modern, accessible, and can be broken. We cant wait to see what you build. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,BSD,Electron,/,Atom,Shell
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Gedit

Score: 99%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for multiple languages. Plugins can be extended. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,BSD,GNOME
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Visual Studio Code

Score: 100%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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Rich IDE help you code a full code, without the need of experience, combined with a modern user interface and optimised navigation, and integrated debugging editor. Features:Free,Open,Source,Windows,Linux,Electron,/,Atom,Shell,Mac
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Geany

Score: 99%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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Geany small and lightweight integrated development environment. Only a few more packages with dependencies that was developed in a small and fast IDE, is available. Other purpose requires only the GTK2 runtime libraries Geany special desktop environment like KDE or Gnome was as independent as possible. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,BSD,
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Brackets

Score: 99%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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Web brackets with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for an open source editor built on web technologies such as the design and development. The project was created and is maintained by Adobe, and is released under the mit license. Focused visual tools and language support with the brackets in the browser makes it easily possible, the design of a modern text editor. Is intended for web designers and front-end developers from the ground. Brackets are lightweight, yet powerful, modern text editor. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,Electron,/,Atom,Shell
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651

5

Aptana Studio

Score: 99%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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Aptana studio with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team more complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools. PHP, CSS, FTP support, and more Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux
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591

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GNU Emacs

Score: 99%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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GNU Emacs, and more extensible, customizable text editor. The programming language lisp, extensions, Emacs Lisp, the language, the essence of an interpreter support editing of the text. GNU Emacs-functions-text, source-code and HTML-Code for different file types, including modes, including syntax coloring, editing, content, and sensitive. Fully Integrated documentation, a tutorial for new users. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,BSD
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497

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TextMate

Score: 99%

Open SourceCommercialMac
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TextMate brings Apples approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. Unix basics by completing and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds, for the benefit of users, expert and novice script writers. Whether you are a programmer or a designer, the production of code and markup is a challenging task. Without a custom editor for this task is often cumbersome, overwhelming, and repetitive. Features:Commercial,Open,Source,Mac
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405

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GNU nano

Score: 99%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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GNU Nano is a small and friendly text editor. Basic text editing, Nano, as well as it has many extra features like an interactive search and changing the number of rows and columns, auto-indentation, has the international support and go to the tab file name completion. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,BSD,Haiku
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385

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PSPad

Score: 98%

FreeWindows
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Free PSPad editor is a programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects. APACHE with support for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, code explorer for PHP, and more development built-in web browser. Download HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, VBScript, MySQL, MS-DOS, Perl contains templates for. Features:Free,Windows
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365

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Kate

Score: 98%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsLinux
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The KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax-highlighting text editor. Plugins can be extended. MDI interface. Kate is a multi document editor, based on a rewritten version of the editing widget of KDE, write your own, a lot of plus offers all of the features. Kate has been moved to the kdesdk package for KDE, and 2.2 since it came out favorite desktop is an integral part of it. Features:Free,Open,Source,Windows,Linux,BSD,KDE
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UltraEdit

Score: 97%

CommercialWindowsMacLinux
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For programmers, UltraEdit ideal text, HTML and hex editor, and an advanced PHP Perl Java and JavaScript editor. Industry Award winner, UltraEdit supports Windows 2000 and later) 32-bit Windows platforms (standard) processing of 64-bit file-disk-based. Features:Commercial,Mac,Windows,Linux
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Neovim

Score: 94%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinuxAndroid
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New: to simplify Vim aggressive to the maintenance and promotion of the contributions is a project that needs to be rebuilt. The division of work between several developers. The kernel source code without changes new/modern user interfaces allow for the implementation. You develop to expand the ability to work with new plugin architecture. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,Android,BSD

Vim alternatives FAQ

What is the best Vim alternative?

Notepad++ is currently the top-ranked option on this list based on community votes and item score.

Are there free Vim alternatives?

Yes. Free, freemium, or open-source options in this list include Notepad++, Sublime Text, Atom, gedit, Visual Studio Code.

Which platforms are covered?

The alternatives in this list include options for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, depending on each product.

How are alternatives ranked?

Alternatives are ordered by community voting signals, item score, and the available product details collected for each option.

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