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neovim/neovim

Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

AI dev

Stack

Vim Script CMake

GitHub topics

#api #c #lua #neovim #nvim #text-editor

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-31
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,910 open

100,864

stars

Forks: 6,944
Commits: 37,110 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zed-industries/zed

Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum Cargo

GitHub topics

#gpui #rust-lang #text-editor #zed

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2021-02-20
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3,398 open

86,428

stars

Forks: 9,355
Commits: 38,822 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

helix-editor/helix

A post-modern modal text editor.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#kakoune #rust #text-editor #vim

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2020-05-20
History: 8 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 1,573 open

45,062

stars

Forks: 3,587
Commits: 7,607 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

vim/vim

The official Vim repository

AI dev

Stack

Vim Script

GitHub topics

#c #cross-platform #text-editor #vim

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2004-06-13
History: 10 history points
License: Vim
Issues: 1,628 open

40,588

stars

Forks: 6,089
Commits: 24,030 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lapce/lapce

Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#code-editor #developer-tools #rust #text-editor #vim

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2018-02-08
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 889 open

38,616

stars

Forks: 1,299
Commits: 3,636 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

micro-editor/micro

A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#command-line #cross-platform #editor #go #golang #micro

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-11
History: 30 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,029 open

29,041

stars

Forks: 1,342
Commits: 3,529 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +30 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +3 +0.1%

Website GitHub

basecamp/trix

A rich text editor for everyday writing

Stack

JavaScript Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#custom-elements #editor #javascript #rich-text-editor #text-editor #wysiwyg

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-18
History: 26 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 181 open

19,975

stars

Forks: 1,134
Commits: 3,165 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

onivim/oni

Oni: Modern Modal Editing - powered by Neovim

Archived

Stack

TypeScript Electron React npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#editing #editor #gui #ide #javascript #neovim

Updated: 2020-04-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-11-16
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 517 open

11,250

stars

Forks: 297
Commits: 1,798 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mawww/kakoune

mawww's experiment for a better code editor

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #console-application #kakoune #modal-editing #text-editor #vim

Updated: 2026-06-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-02
History: 5 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 910 open

10,968

stars

Forks: 774
Commits: 11,068 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jmacdonald/amp

A complete text editor for your terminal.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#rust #terminal #text-editor #vim

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-02-01
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 94 open

4,092

stars

Forks: 109
Commits: 1,297 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

geany/geany

A fast and lightweight IDE

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#geany #ide #text-editor

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-11-22
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,242 open

3,663

stars

Forks: 663
Commits: 10,812 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

vkbo/novelWriter

novelWriter is an open source plain text editor designed for writing novels.

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest CMake uv

GitHub topics

#editor #linux #novels #pyqt6 #python #qt6

Updated: 2026-07-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-09-22
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 121 open

3,005

stars

Forks: 205
Commits: 7,807 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

neurocyte/flow

Flow Control: a programmer's text editor

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#language-server-client #language-server-protocol #text-editor #tree-sitter #tui #zig

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-02-25
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 69 open

2,088

stars

Forks: 111
Commits: 3,752 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

OlaProeis/Ferrite

A fast, lightweight text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML files. Built with Rust and egui for a native, responsive experience.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cross-platform #editor #egui #json #markdown #markdown-editor

Updated: 2026-06-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-12-19
History: 46 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

1,688

stars

Forks: 83
Commits: 343 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: -1 -0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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subethaedit/SubEthaEdit

General purpose plain text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature.

Stack

Objective-C

GitHub topics

#appkit #cocoa #code #collaboration #collaborative-editing #creative-writing

Updated: 2025-11-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2003-09-16
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 92 open

1,424

stars

Forks: 115
Commits: 5,832 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

laurent22/massren

massren - easily rename multiple files using your text editor

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#go #linux #osx #rename-files #text-editor #windows

Updated: 2024-12-08
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-02
History: 22 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 14 open

1,396

stars

Forks: 40
Commits: 193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +1 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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xyproto/orbiton

Snappy and configuration-free text editor/IDE for the terminal. Suitable for writing git commit messages, editing Markdown, config files, source code, man pages and for quick edit-format-compile cycles when programming. Has syntax highlighting, jump-to-error, rainbow parentheses, macros, cut/paste portals, LSP support and a simple gdb+dlv frontend.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#command-line #editor #freebsd #gdb #gleam #go

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-30
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 0 open

684

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 6,315 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ChimeHQ/Chime

An editor for macOS

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#extensionkit #macos #swift #swiftui #text-editor

Updated: 2026-04-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-07-29
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 5 open

476

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 343 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

maxnd/mxMarkEdit

A free app for Mac to create Markdown documents with stylistic support and a native bibliographic manager Zotero-friendly, tasks, simple databases, and presentations

Stack

Pascal

GitHub topics

#biblatex #bibliography #database #dissertation #document #documents

Updated: 2026-07-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-12-03
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 246 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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