Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Kakoune

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Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Kakoune are Vim, Visual Studio Code, and GNU Emacs. 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
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
2

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1017 social mentions
GNU Emacs Landing Page
3

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions
Neovim Landing Page
4

Neovim

Vim's rebirth for the 21st century
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 96 social mentions
Sublime Text Landing Page
5

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
Spacemacs Landing Page
6

Spacemacs

Community-driven Emacs distribution that meshes Emacs and Vim features.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions
Howl Landing Page
7

Howl

General purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Office & Productivity 1 social mentions
Geany Landing Page
8

Geany

Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 5 social mentions
Notepad++ Landing Page
9

Notepad++

A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDEs And Text Editors #Text Editors #IDE 169 social mentions
Leo Editor Landing Page
10

Leo Editor

Text and code editor where Outlines are first class citizen.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Python IDE #Text Editors #IDE 13 social mentions
Brackets Landing Page
11

Brackets

A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 social mentions
Micro Landing Page
12

Micro

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