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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: 2026-10-17
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-31
History: 19 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,975 open

103,016

stars

Forks: 7,191
Commits: 38,482 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +38 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +80 +0.2%

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: 2026-10-01
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2021-02-20
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3,182 open

91,138

stars

Forks: 10,860
Commits: 40,212 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: 2026-09-22
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2020-05-20
History: 11 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 1,682 open

46,328

stars

Forks: 3,775
Commits: 7,689 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: 2026-09-27
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2004-06-13
History: 13 history points
License: Vim
Issues: 1,633 open

40,978

stars

Forks: 6,139
Commits: 24,548 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: 2026-10-06
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2018-02-08
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 900 open

38,898

stars

Forks: 1,343
Commits: 3,653 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: 2026-09-11
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-11
History: 48 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 945 open

29,559

stars

Forks: 1,363
Commits: 3,548 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

basecamp/trix

A rich text editor for everyday writing

Stack

JavaScript Ruby on Rails Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-18
History: 44 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 186 open

20,005

stars

Forks: 1,133
Commits: 3,183 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 517 open

11,233

stars

Forks: 296
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: 2026-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-02
History: 8 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 924 open

11,070

stars

Forks: 783
Commits: 11,124 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: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 95 open

4,130

stars

Forks: 111
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: 2026-10-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-11-22
History: 12 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,283 open

3,737

stars

Forks: 668
Commits: 10,815 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

saga-soft/novelWriter

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

Stack

Python pytest CMake uv

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2018-09-22
History: 15 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 106 open

3,186

stars

Forks: 222
Commits: 8,834 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +11 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +63 +0.7%

Website GitHub

vkbo/novelWriter

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

Stack

Python pytest CMake uv

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-09-22
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 106 open

3,068

stars

Forks: 209
Commits: 8,451 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: 2026-09-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-02-25
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 80 open

2,453

stars

Forks: 121
Commits: 4,255 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: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-12-19
History: 137 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 44 open

1,843

stars

Forks: 95
Commits: 343 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +9 +0.5%
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: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 93 open

1,434

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: 40 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 13 open

1,396

stars

Forks: 40
Commits: 193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-09-18
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-30
History: 9 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 0 open

703

stars

Forks: 18
Commits: 6,426 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: 11 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 5 open

485

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

hanhdt/vue-trix

Trix text editor component for Vue.js

Stack

Vue Vue npm

GitHub topics

#text-editor #trix #vue-component #vue2 #vuejs

Updated: 2026-01-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-06
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 48 open

253

stars

Forks: 35
Commits: 487 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

vue-quilly/vue-quilly

Tiny Vue component, that helps to create Quill v2 based WYSIWYG editors https://vue-quilly.vercel.app/

AI dev

Stack

Vue Next.js Nuxt React Svelte npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#nuxt #nuxt3 #nuxt4 #quill #quill-editor #quill-vue

Updated: 2026-08-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-04-25
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

118

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 149 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

JackUait/blok

A block-based rich text editor for the web, like the one in Notion

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Angular ASP.NET Core React Tailwind CSS .NET SDK npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#angular #block-editor #contenteditable #editor #editorjs #headless

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-11-28
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 0
Commits: 7,270 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

maxnd/mxMarkEdit

A native macOS Markdown editor for academic writing, featuring an integrated Zotero-friendly bibliography manager, spreadsheet databases, and task tracking.

Stack

Pascal

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-12-03
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 273 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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