Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to qemacs (for quick emacs)

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Summary

The top open-source alternatives to qemacs (for quick emacs) are Vim, Neovim, 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
Neovim Landing Page
2

Neovim

Vim's rebirth for the 21st century
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 96 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
Spacemacs Landing Page
4

Spacemacs

Community-driven Emacs distribution that meshes Emacs and Vim features.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
5

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1011 social mentions
Howl Landing Page
6

Howl

General purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Office & Productivity 1 social mentions
Suplemon Landing Page
7

Suplemon

Suplemon is a modern, powerful and intuitive console text editor with multi cursor support. Suplemon replicates Sublime Text style functionality in the terminal with the ease of use of Nano.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 2 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
Sublime Text Landing Page
10

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
slap Landing Page
11

slap

Sublime-like terminal-based text editor
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 3 social mentions
Typora Landing Page
12

Typora

A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Markdown Viewer 84 social mentions