Text editors remain a controversial area. Here's our recommended Vim-like text editors. They are all released under an open source license.

A clever little console text editor. Written in C, forked out of mle.

Short walk through Vim's origins and why is Vim so popular today.

A simple and effective grid-based mapping tool to help you set the scene for any battle.

Native, lightweight modal code editor. Contribute to onivim/oni2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

The primary goal of 4coder is to maximize the power and ease of customization. 4coder also places high priority on performance and portability.

Editly is a tool and framework for declarative NLE (non-linear video editing) using Node.js and ffmpeg. Editly allows you to easily and programmatically create a video from set of clips, images and titles, with smooth transitions between and music overlaid.

PyLint, Rope, Pydoc, breakpoints from box.

A powerful modal editor written in python.

vy is a modal editor with a very modular architecture. vy is built on top of Tkinter which is one of the most productive graphical toolkits; It permits vy to have such a great programming interface for plugins. Python is such an amazing language; it turns vy such a powerful application because its plugin API is high level naturally.

12 simple configuration tips for your .nanorc file, useful for programmers!

1. Smooth Scrolling
2. Syntax Highlighting
3. Auto-indentation
4. Backups
5. Case Sensitive Searches
6. Nano History
7. More Editing Space
8. Hide help from bottom
9. Disable Line Wrapping (nowrap)
10. Tab size
11. Convert Tabs to Spaces
12. Enable Mouse

Abricotine is an open-source markdown editor built for desktop.

From the website: "WordGrinder is a word processor for processing words. It is not WYSIWYG. It is not point and click. It is not a desktop publisher. It is not a text editor. It does not do fonts and it barely does styles. What it does do is words. It's designed for writing text. It gets out of your way and lets you type."

"a modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like editor", and more: "The intention is not to be bug for bug compatible with vim, instead a similar editing experience should be provided. The goal could thus be summarized as 80% of vim's features implemented in roughly 1% of the code"; the editor is scriptable in LUA and supports editing large files.

Historically one of the preferred text editors; behavior based on editing modes; plenty of plugins and tips to address every possible editing problem.

A text editor similar to vim written in Python; many feature are nicely replicated, some are still missing; however, the advantage of this implementation is its simplicity, maintainability and extensibility, thanks to the Python implementation.

Text editor inspired by Sublime Text written in NodeJS; extendable in Javascript.

A work in progress attempt to improve vim, dropping older/unused OS compatibility, improving the codebase readability, modularity and maintainability; it has chances to become the next choice of vim users.

A terminal-based text editor written in Go that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals.