Cream (for Vim) Alternatives

Vim

Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a...

Features:

• Lightweight
• Customizable
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Syntax Highlighting
• Keyboard focused
• Plugins
• Well documented
• Built-in terminal emulation
• Command line interface
• Configurable
• For geek
• Hackable
• MarkDown support
• Batch Editing
• Command line
• Configurable
• Dedication to home row
• Developer Tools
• Support for Large File
• Lightweight
• Mnemonic key bindings
• Modal editor
• Native application
• Plugin manager
• Regex substitution
• Spell checking
• Terminal-based
• Vim Buffers
• Vim folding
• Visual Mode
• Word completion

Visual Studio Code

Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience – without the need for a full IDE.

Features:

• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Lightweight
• Built-in Terminal
• Autocompletion
• Intellisense
• Customizable
• Syntax Highlighting
• Code completion
• GIT support
• Plugins
• C++ support
• C# Scripting
• C support
• Graphical interface
• IDE
• Support for Javascript
• MarkDown support
• Multiple cursors
• Night mode/Dark Theme
• Ruby support
• Source code debugging
• Supports loads of file formats
• Supports Python
• Bugs
• Code formatting
• Code navigation
• Color coding of code
• Electron based
• Embedded debugger
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Extensions
• Git integration
• Mercurial support
• Minimap
• PHP IDE
• Remote Debugging
• Run Android Apps on Desktop
• Support for NodeJS
• Version and Source control

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...

Features:

• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Cross-platform
• Customizable
• Editable text color schemes
• Extensions
• Syntax Highlighting
• IDE
• IDE All Languages
• Package Control
• Scripting
• Self-documenting
• Terminal-based

GNU nano

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column...

Features:

• Command line interface
• Automatic Indentation
• Search and replace
• Terminal-based

VSCodium

Binary releases of Visual Studio Code without Microsoft branding, telemetry and licensing.

Features:

• FLOSS
• No Tracking
• Privacy-friendly
• Automatic Indentation
• Autocompletion
• Built-in Terminal
• Code completion
• Code navigation
• Color coding
• Customizable
• Embedded debugger
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Git integration
• GIT support
• IDE
• Support for Javascript
• MarkDown support
• Minimap
• Multiple cursors
• PHP IDE
• Privacy Protected
• Syntax Highlighting
• Support for Themes

CudaText

CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus. It starts quite fast (0.5 sec with ~30 plugins on CPU Intel Core i3 3Hz). It is extensible by Python...

Features:

• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Minimap
• Command palette
• Customizable
• Lightweight

Traditional Ex - Vi editor

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...