Top 8 Open-Source Alternatives to Elvis Text Editor

Elvis Text Editor

Elvis Text Editor is a vi/ex clone providing syntax hilighting, mulitple files in mulitple windows, browse modes for LaTeX, HTML, and MAN pages, network support, and GUI frontends.

As Elvis Text Editor is an open source project, you can find more open source alternatives and stats on LibHunt.

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Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Elvis Text Editor are Vim, GNU Emacs, and Visual Studio Code. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Vim Landing Page
1

Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions
GNU Emacs Landing Page
2

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
3

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1012 social mentions
Sublime Text Landing Page
4

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. Fully customizable with macros, and syntax highlighting for most major languages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 3 social mentions
Brackets Landing Page
5

Brackets

A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 social mentions
Netbeans Landing Page
6

Netbeans

NetBeans IDE 7.0. Develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, PHP, C/C++ and more. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. NetBeans IDE is open-source and free.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development 15 social mentions
Textmate Landing Page
7

Textmate

TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 14 social mentions
Micro Landing Page
8

Micro

Modern terminal-based text editor
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 76 social mentions