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24 alternatives to A succinct vim-like editor.

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A succinct vim-like editor is a text editor designed for users familiar with vim's keyboard-driven workflow. Launched in 2018, it provides vim-style commands and navigation in a lightweight package. The editor is built… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A succinct vim-like editor. launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Vy – a powerful but retro and minimalist IDE▲143

   A vim-like in Python. Contribute to vyapp/vy development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   vim.so▲444

   Learn vim fast with interactive exercises in the browser

   2021 · learnvim.com · its alternatives →

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   A simple, tiny Vim and kilo-inspired editor▲120

   A dead simple editor. Contribute to hellerve/e development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Vim online editor using WebAssembly, storing files using IndexedDB▲316

   2023 · vimonlineeditor.com · its alternatives →

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   Subvim – Vim customized to be like SublimeText▲90

   Vim customized to be like SublimeText. Contribute to fatih/subvim development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Visual Studio Code 1.0▲309

   Microsoft's cross-platform text editor for developers

   2016 · code.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

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   I made a Vim-like editor for building webpages▲14

   2020 · vivpage.com · its alternatives →

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   A bookmarklet for Jimmy-rigging Github's editor with Vim mode▲46

   2011 · misfo.github.com · its alternatives →

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   VimLM – A Local, Offline Coding Assistant for Vim▲93

   VimLM is a local, offline coding assistant for Vim. It’s like Copilot but runs entirely on your machine—no APIs, no tracking, no cloud. - Deep Context: Understands your codebase (current file, selections, references). - Conversational: Iterate with follow-ups like "Add error handling". - Vim-Native: Keybindings like `Ctrl-l` for prompts, `Ctrl-p` to replace code. - Inline Commands: `!include` files, `!deploy` code, `!continue` long responses. Perfect for privacy-conscious devs or air-gapped environments. Try it: ``` pip install vimlm vimlm ```…

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Searchable Vim Cheat Sheet with Favorites (Open-Source)▲63

    Explore essential Neovim and Vim commands, remaps, plugin commands, and create a personalized cheatsheet to boost text editing efficiency.

    2025 · nvim-cheatsheet.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Using Vim as an input method editor (IME) for X11 apps▲132

    As a Vim user, I often use Vim to write some text and then copy & paste it into another text field of GUI apps (e.g. browsers, chat apps, etc.), because almost all of these text fields provide only very basic editing functions. A while ago, I came up with an idea: what if we could use Vim as an IME? Ordinary IMEs are used to input some non-English characters, but the essential functions of IME are 1) receiving a keyboard sequence 2) process the key sequence and outputting a text These functions are the same as text editor's. So I thought implementing an IME that can be used with Vim…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Vim: Convenient Code Navigation for Your Projects▲12

    2016 · dmitryfrank.com · its alternatives →

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    An open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG Markdown editor▲460

    Inspired by the design and UI/UX of apps like Notion, and utility of open-source apps like StackEdit, I decided to create a minimalistic, local-only WYSIWYG Markdown editor. Some features worth highlighting: - Monaco editor and Prettier integration for code snippets - Tables (apparently the holy grail of WYSIWYG editing) - Embeds (for CodePen, CodeSandbox and YouTube, most useful for HTML or JSON exports) - Accepts Markdown paste-in, and "exports"/generates HTML, Markdown and JSON outputs - Collaboration (with real-time awareness and initial commenting system, available only when…

    2023 · editor.vrite.io · its alternatives →

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    A renderless and extendable rich-text editor for Vue.js▲278

    The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans. - ueberdosis/tiptap

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Yoopta-Editor▲334

    Open-source text-editor

    2024 · yoopta.dev · its alternatives →

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    Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland▲148

    Create a layer of shortcuts with xkb for Xorg and Wayland

    2020 · cedaei.com · its alternatives →

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    VNote▲78

    A Vim-inspired note-taking application with Markdown

    2018 · tamlok.github.io · its alternatives →

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    CuteVim – Portable Vim with a cute vimrc▲95

    Sensible defaults for Vim. Contribute to csdvrx/CuteVim development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Visual Editor▲504

    Edit web apps visually in the Cursor Browser

    Dec 2025 · cursor.com · its alternatives →

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    A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings▲126

    While speccing out this spreadsheet tool, I realized that I never had to think about the keybindings. It all just came naturally from Vim. Normal/insert/visual modes, hjkl navigation, dd/yy/p, :w, :q. The usual muscle memory works. It supports CSV/TSV import and export, and a native .cell format that preserves formulas. The formula engine handles SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN, MAX, and IF with range references. The codebase is a Cargo workspace: a pure cell-sheet-core library (no TUI dependency) and a cell-sheet-tui crate on top of ratatui. Early days, but it's usable. To…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    BetterWrite▲134

    So this weekend I and a friend of mine (@ronitrajfr) created a minimalist writing editor. It's ui is clean, beautiful and distraction free, it also has a vim mode and everything stays on your computer no authentication is required to write your thoughts and all we wanted an application where we just start typing with no BS and that's what we made. and did I tell ya that it's open source as well lmk your thoughts and feedback!!

    Dec 2025 · betterwrite.ronitt.xyz · its alternatives →

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    I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster▲344

    Hey show HN! This course came about as a result of wanting a more targeted way of practicing using new vim commands I wanted to pick up, rather than just trying to use them in my regular code editing sessions. When I would try to use new commands during code editing, my productivity took a hit because I was trying to do two different things at once: thinking about code vs practicing my muscle memory. So, I made a separate environment for practicing, one that had an interactive editor, progress tracking, and achievement goals to let me see which areas I should work on, like speed and…

    2022 · vimified.com · its alternatives →

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    (vy) A nifty vim-like editor running on python3 now▲6

    https://github.com/iogf/vy

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Master Vim▲70

    Learn Vim with interactive exercises

    2021 · vim.is · its alternatives →

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