Top 15 Traditional Ex - Vi editor Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix. It was developed starting around 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, who was tired of the ed editor. But since he used ed as a code base, access to the original sources has required a commercial Unix Source Code License for more than twenty years. In January 2002, Caldera was so kind to remove usage restrictions to the Ancient Unix Code by a BSD-style license (see the announcement at Slashdot) and thus vi is now finally free.

Compared to most of its many clones, the traditional vi is a rather small program (the binary size is approximately 160 kBytes on i386) just with its extremely powerful editing interface, but lacking fancy features like multiple undo, multiple screens, or syntax highlighting.

1. CodeWright

CodeWright CodeWright® 7.5, the programmer's editing system,™ is designed to boost productivity with peer-to-peer connectivity for remote communication and file editing.Timesaving features include advanced search and replace, an editable Difference Window, syntax coloring, code intelligence, and customizable templates and snippets for code reuse. Tailor CodeWright options and keymaps to enhance usability.......

2. PICO (the PIne COmposer)

PICO (the PIne COmposer) PICO - the PIne COmposer - a simple editorPICO means "very small" and also stands for "PIne COmposer" (or "Pine Internal COmposer"), ie it is a text editor (composer) that ships with the Unix/DOS newsreader "PINE".PICO is designed to be a "simple editor", ie only the bare minimum of commands......

3. Beaver Editor

Beaver Editor Beaver is an Early AdVanced EditoR. Beaver is a GTK+2 editor designed to be Light-Weight, Modular and Stylish......

4. Keypress Editor

Keypress Editor This is the editor you were looking for. Keypress is an offline, desktop based code editor. Use Keypress to edit your local files, on any platform. Keypress features a stylish and simplistic interface, and intuitive features like project management and fuzzy search for opening files. It also supports versatile layouts,......

5. medit

medit medit is a programming and around-programming text editor.Started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up to a real text editor.......

6. GNU Emacs

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. The features of GNU Emacs include: * Content-sensitive editing modes, including syntax coloring, for a variety of file types......

7. Batch Encoding Converter

Batch Encoding Converter Convert 1000s of files between more than 100 text encodings and binary formats: Unicode, ANSI, Latin, Cyrillic, ASCII, UTF8, ISO, OEM, Mac, Base-64, Bin-Hex, Quoted-Printable.- Save raw bytes from files as hex, dec, or bin ASCII byte code representations, and convert them back to bytes.- Includes automatic encoding detection, Big......

8. Zed Code Editor

Zed Code Editor Zed is a fully offline-capable text and code editor you can use to edit files locally, on Dropbox, or remotely on any server. It has all the code editor features you'd expect and more:* Syntax highlighting for many programming languages (e.g. C, Clojure, CoffeeScript, C#, CSS, Dart, Erlang, Go, Haml,......

9. Mousepad

Mousepad A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.Features:* Complete support for UTF-8 text* Cut/Copy/Paste and Select All text* Search and Replace* Font......

10. edile

edile Edile is a basic but useful text editor for Linux, Mac OSX and other unix-like operating systems. Written in Python, Edile is implemented in a single source code file and requires no installation - you simply execute the source code file. Edile requires Python, PyGtk and if you have GtkSourceView......

11. CudaText

CudaText CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus.Features include:Syntax highlight for many languages: C, C++, Java, Pascal, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, XML... totally about 140 lexers exist. Code folding. Multi-carets, multi-selections. Find/replace with regex. Split tab, split view for 2/3/4 files. Command palette like ST3. Text configs like......

12. Komodo Edit

Komodo Edit Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. Switching your trusty code editor is hard, but give Komodo Edit (or its big brother Komodo IDE ) a try: it'll be worth your while.Windows, Mac, Linux? Yes.PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, XML, HTML5, CSS 3? Yes,......

13. TextMate

TextMate TextMate brings Apples approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.......

14. Backdoor

Backdoor An in-browser code editor built on PHP and CodeMirror, including file and user management with a beautiful UI.......

15. HxD

HxD HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size.The easy to use interface offers features such as searching and replacing, exporting, checksums/digests, insertion of byte patterns, a file shredder, concatenation or splitting of......