Alternatives to Neovim

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free, open-source text editor developed by Don Ho for Windows. It is designed for programmers and web developers, and is widely used in software development. It features syntax highlighting for many languages, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, and PHP. It also ...

Atom

Atom is an open-source, hackable text editor developed by the team at GitHub. It is designed to be a modern, extensible, and hackable text editor for developers, allowing them to customize the editor to suit their needs. Atom comes with a built-in package manager, making it easy ...

If you use GUI (graphics, not terminals) this is the best alternative.

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Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a source code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It includes support for debugging, built-in Git control, syntax highlighting, snippets, code refactoring, and code completion. It is a lightweight but powerful source code editor that...

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a powerful, feature-rich code editor used by professional developers around the world. It is an advanced code editor, with an easy to use interface and the ability to quickly switch between projects. It is suitable for a variety of programming languages, such as H...

Vim

Vim is a highly configurable text editor for Linux, MacOS, and Windows, based on the Vi editor from the 1970s. Vim contains many features that make it an ideal development software for programmers and developers. It offers syntax highlighting and code completion, as well as a bui...

Eclipse

Eclipse is an open source, integrated development environment (IDE) used for software development, including application development, web development and embedded systems development. It is written in Java and runs on multiple platforms, including Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Sola...

Brackets

Brackets is a free and open-source text editor from Adobe Systems, primarily used for web development. It is written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and has a robust plugin system for extending its capabilities. It is cross-platform and runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Brackets ...

gedit

Gedit is a text-editor application developed for the GNOME desktop environment and compatible with Linux, Windows, and macOS operating systems. It is a lightweight, open-source program used to create and edit text files, HTML and other programming language codes, and configuratio...

Geany

Geany is an open-source, cross-platform text editor and IDE (Integrated Development Environment). It is designed to provide an easy-to-use interface for development requirements such as editing source code, compiling and debugging code, running external programs, and managing pro...

GNU nano

GNU nano is a text editor designed to be user-friendly and easy to use. It is part of the GNU Project, and is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is designed to be a lightweight and simple text editor, so it can be used on computers with limited memo...

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible and customizable text editor, which is widely used for programming, web development, and other computer-related tasks. It is a free and open source software and has a wide range of features, making it a powerful development environment. Emacs is equippe...

Both are powerful text editors that allow a great deal of customization.

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Kate

Kate is a powerful development software and applications platform that enables developers to create powerful, visually stunning and feature-rich applications. It offers a powerful and easy-to-use graphical user interface that allows developers to create and manage projects, as we...

TextMate

TextMate is a powerful development tool for Mac OS X, designed to make programming easier and more efficient. It was designed to be a light-weight, yet powerful, text editor with many features that make coding easier and faster. TextMate is the ideal software for professional pro...

UltraEdit

UltraEdit is a powerful and feature-rich text, HTML and hex editor for Windows. It is used by software developers and IT professionals to edit source code and other text-based files as well as binary data. It also functions as a basic web development tool, with syntax highlightin...

SciTE

SciTE is a free source code editor and text editor for Windows, Linux, and OS X. It is designed to be a powerful, yet lightweight and fast, editing environment for programmers, developers, and anyone else who needs an efficient text editor. It supports syntax highlighting for a w...

Light Table

Light Table is a free, open source, interactive development environment for programming languages, databases, and data analysis. It allows users to view, edit, and debug code in real time. It is built on a web-based platform, and can be accessed from any device with a web browser...

Discontinued Appears to be abandoned. The last release was January 2016

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Micro

Micro is a powerful, open source programming language and development platform designed to make it easy to create, deploy, and maintain high-performance software applications. It is a language-agnostic, platform-agnostic, and cloud-agnostic development technology that can be used...

Very light and still usable. It sits between vim and nano. It also has a more common link that you might be used to from other programs (ctrl-c to copy, ctrl-v to paste, ctrl-s to save, etc.).

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TextWrangler

TextWrangler is a powerful yet easy to use text editor and text manipulation application. It is available both as a Mac OS X application, as well as an online application. TextWrangler provides a wide range of features and tools for text manipulation, including syntax coloring, s...

Discontinued The developers announced that development of TextWrangler was halted, in favor of concentrating their efforts on developing BBEdit. Quoted on the TextWrangler website, "We are running TextWrangler, and encourage anyone interested in TextWrangler to download and use BBEdit instead."

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Leafpad

Leafpad is a free and open-source text editor for the Linux and BSD operating systems. It is considered to be a lightweight and simple software application designed to ease the task of creating, editing and managing text files. It features a clean, intuitive user interface that i...

Notepad3

Notepad3 is a free, open-source text editor and source code editor for Windows. It is fast and lightweight, and offers a variety of features such as a syntax highlighting, line bookmarking, line numbers and auto-completion. Notepad3 also includes tools for searching, sorting and ...

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