MacVim

MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to Mac OS X. MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as: * bindings to standard OS X keyboard shortcuts (?Z, ?V, ?A, ?G, etc.

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Mac OS X

macvim is a port of the text editor vim to mac os x.

macvim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as:

* bindings to standard os x keyboard shortcuts (?z, ?v, ?a, ?g, etc.), * transparent backgrounds, * fullscreen mode, * multibyte editing with os x input methods and automatic font substitution, * odb editor support,

and more.

note: macvim is in no way connected with http://macvim.org . that site is no longer being maintained and only provides outdated binaries of the old carbon port of vim.

the macvim source code and wiki is now hosted on github: http://github.com/b4winckler/macvim

Links to official MacVim sites

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Vim

Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a GUI version called GVim.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Haiku OpenSolaris

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Plugin manager Configurability Keyboard focused Modal editor Small size Terminal based Visual Mode Word completion Works on all OSs
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Atom

A hackable text editor for the 21st Century. At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Electron / Atom Shell

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Themes Distraction free UI Interior Design Syntax Highlighting Community based Minimap Modular System Autocompletion GitHub integration Plugin API GIT support Code completion Gitlab integration Multiple cursors Package Control Plugins Feature Fuzzy Finder Hackable Integrated Development Environment Support for Multiple programming languages Separated workspaces Support for NodeJS Unit Testing
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Visual Studio Code

Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience – without the need for a full IDE.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Javascript MarkDown support Lightweight Syntax Highlighting Mercurial support Version and Source control Dark theme Plugin support Autocompletion Bugs GIT support Code completion Intellisense Multiple cursors C# Scripting Embedded debugger Built in Terminal Git integration
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GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Scripting Syntax Highlighting Package Control Terminal based Self documenting
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PSPad

PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on.

Free Windows

Portable Lightweight Syntax Highlighting
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Kate

Text editor for the KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax highlighting. It is extensible with plugins. Features a MDI interface.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD KDE

Tabbed interface Syntax Highlighting Support for regular expressions Code formatting
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SynWrite

SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

Free Open Source Windows Total Commander

Portable Syntax Highlighting
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RJ TextEd

RJ TextEd is a full featured text and source editor with Unicode support, syntax highlighting and code folding.

Free Windows

Portable Syntax Highlighting
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slap

slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing from the terminal easier.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Node.JS

Portable Syntax Highlighting Command line interface
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Ynote Classic

Ynote Classic is an easy to use fast and advanced text editor with a tabbed interface and multiview. It has intelligent Syntax Highlighting, Code Folding , Auto Indent...

Free Open Source Windows

Syntax Highlighting Autocompletion Support for Large File Automatic Indentation
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FavoText

FavoText is a text editor, which supports editing file with text/hex format, syntax highlighting and auto completion; it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.

Commercial Windows

Syntax Highlighting Support for SFTP Web log analysis
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JujuEdit

JujuEdit is a file editor, or alternatively a text editor with knobs-on. It is an application designed for me and people like me. At its simplest, it makes a fine...

Free Windows

Syntax Highlighting Support for Large File

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