Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to MacVim

MacVim

MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to Mac OS X.

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The top open-source alternatives to MacVim are Vim, VS Code, and Sublime Text. 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
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Vim

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

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 1222 social mentions
Sublime Text Landing Page
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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
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 3 social mentions
Neovim Landing Page
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Neovim

Vim's rebirth for the 21st century
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 119 social mentions
Spacemacs Landing Page
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Spacemacs

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

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

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

TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 16 social mentions
Zed Landing Page
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Zed

Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Productivity #Software Development #Text Editors 103 social mentions
CotEditor Landing Page
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CotEditor

Open Source Plain-Text Editor for OS X
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 27 social mentions
Notepad++ Landing Page
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Notepad++

A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 176 social mentions
Geany Landing Page
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Geany

Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 6 social mentions