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Emacs

Emacs Kick – starter Emacs configuration for Vim and Neovim users

October 17, 2026 Steve Emms Documents

Emacs Kick is a starter configuration for Vim and Neovim users, combining familiar modal editing with modern Emacs development tools.

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Text Editor

22 Best Free and Open Source Vim-Like Text Editors

June 24, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

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

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Text Editor

Wig – modal, Vim-like text editor

June 23, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Wig is a modal, Vim-like text editor written in Go that’s designed for source code editing.

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Text Editor

Hat – hackable modal text editor

June 23, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Hat is a hackable modal text editor for modern terminals aimed at users who prefer software they can inspect, modify, and compile from source.

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Text Editor

Hako – lightweight terminal-based modal text environment

June 23, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Hako is a lightweight terminal-based modal text environment written primarily in C.

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Text Editor

11 Best Free and Open Source Neovim GUIs

June 14, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

Neovim’s RPC support lets developers create new front-ends (GUIs) for Neovim that are outside of the terminal. We make our recommendations.

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Text Editor

Envim – Electron-based graphical frontend for Neovim

June 14, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Envim is an Electron frontend for Neovim that supports external multigrid, command-line, popup-menu, tabline, messages and highlights.

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Web Browsers

wyeb – vim-like webkit2gtk web browser

October 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

wyeb is a vim-like webkit2gtk web browser. wyeb is inspired by dwb and luakit, so basically usage is similar to them.

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Text Editor

moe – command-line editor inspired by Vim

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

moe is a command line based editor inspired by Vim written in Nim.

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Text Editor

pyvim – terminal Vim implementation using prompt_toolkit

September 21, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

pyvim is a Python-based Vim-like terminal editor with split windows, tab pages, Pygments highlighting and Python code assistance.

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VNote – Vim-inspired note-taking application

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

VNote is designed to provide a pleasant note-taking platform with excellent editing experience.

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Text Editor

xvi – portable multi-window vi-compatible text editor

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

xvi is a small portable vi-style editor with multiple text windows, file switching and a familiar command-driven editing interface.

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VoIP

iamb – Matrix client for Vim addicts

January 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

iamb is a terminal-based client for Matrix for the Vim addict.You can edit messages, navigate windows and manage tabs.

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Files

nvim-tree – file explorer for Neovim

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

nvim-tree.lua is a file explorer / filesystem tree view plugin for Neovim. It’s written in Lua.

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calendar.vim – calendar application for Vim

June 30, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

calendar.vim is a calendar application for Vim.

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Image Compression Tools

ucollage – extensible command line image viewer

March 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

ucollage is a Vim-inspired terminal image browser with ratings, categories and editing tools; its upstream repository is now archived.

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Git Clients

Fugitive – Git integration for Vim

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Fugitive integrates Git into Vim with interactive status, staging, blame, diffs, commit history and repository-aware commands.

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Emoji

vim-emoji – emoji in Vim

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Other

vim-emoji is an emoji utility for Vim. Vim is a contraction of Vi IMproved), a screen-based text editor program.

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Text Editor

Levee – lightweight vi-style terminal text editor

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Levee is a lightweight terminal text editor with vi-style commands, regular expression searching, substitutions, macros, and tag navigation.

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Text Editor

Vy – Vim-like in Python made from scratch

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Vy is a Vim-like program written from scratch.Vy is a modal editor with a very modular architecture. vy is built on top of Tkinter.

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