McWig Alternatives

McWig is described as 'Modal, Vim-like text editor written in Go' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to McWig for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Snapcraft apps. The best McWig alternative is Vim, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like McWig are Neovim, GNU Emacs, GNU nano and Micro.

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Vy
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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.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
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Text Editor
Code Editor
Alerts
Discontinued
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Mac
Windows
Linux
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Good alternative?Is Vy a good alternative to McWig?
4coder
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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.).
164 4coder alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
United States
M
Good alternative?Is 4coder a good alternative to McWig?
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Vis
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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 sam's structural regular expression based command...
149 Vis alternatives
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Free
Open Source
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Mac
Linux
BSD
V
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Good alternative?Is Vis a good alternative to McWig?
vile
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vile is a portable vi clone with extra features and other improvements. It's a text editor that attempts to combine the best aspects of the popular Emacs and vi editors.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
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Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Cygwin
M
Good alternative?Is vile a good alternative to McWig?
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mg
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This is a portable version of the Mg editor from OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer who did a bunch of overhaul work on the version of Mg found in the OpenBSD base system.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Text Editor
Origin
Canada
Platforms
Mac
Linux
BSD
Cygwin
M
M
Good alternative?Is mg a good alternative to McWig?
Ki Editor
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Ki Editor is a modal editor that supports multi-cursor structural editing.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MPL-2.0)
Application type
Code Editor
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Rust
M
Good alternative?Is Ki Editor a good alternative to McWig?
Bim text editor
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Bim is a Vim-inspired, terminal text editor originally built for ToaruOS but also available for Linux, Sortix, FreeBSD, and macOS. Bim aims to be lightweight and featureful with no external dependencies, providing a modern editing experience...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Linux
BSD
United States
M
Good alternative?Is Bim text editor a good alternative to McWig?
Zee
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Zee is a modern editor for the terminal, written in Rust. It is a highly experimental code. In the old tradition of text editor demos, here's what it currently looks like editing its own source code.
26 Zee alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
M
Good alternative?Is Zee a good alternative to McWig?
dte
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A small and easy to use console text editor.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Text Editor
Platforms
Linux
BSD
Termux
Android
M
Good alternative?Is dte a good alternative to McWig?
ptext
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A nano like text editor built with pure C.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)
Application type
Text Editor
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
M
Good alternative?Is ptext a good alternative to McWig?