Vim Classic Alternatives

Vim Classic is described as 'Fork of Vim 8.x for long-term maintenance, providing a stable, dependable editor — maintained entirely by humans' and is a Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Vim Classic for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Vim Classic alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Vim Classic are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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  1. Spacemacs icon

    Spacemacs

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    Spacemacs is an beautiful Emacs distribution designed for both GNU Emacs and Vim users.

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    • Windows
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  2. Caxton icon

    Caxton

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    A native macOS text editor built for very large files. Opens, searches, and edits multi-gigabyte logs and CSVs in seconds by indexing files instead of loading them into memory.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    Log search shot: 10 GB log · 80,610,954 lines · 1,613,344 matches in 1.3 s
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  4. MacVim icon

    MacVim

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    MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to macOS. MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as:

    87 MacVim alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    EmEditor

    Versatile Windows editor offering lightweight, ultra-fast performance with robust support for text, code, and CSV files, AI-assisted writing, macros, Unicode, plugins, syntax highlighting, advanced search, column editing, split v...

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  6. Onivim 2 icon

    Onivim 2

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    Onivim 2 is a retro-futuristic modal editor - the next iteration of the Onivim project - combining Vim-style modal editing with the aesthetics and language features of modern editors.

    76 Onivim 2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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