neovim VS Vim

Compare neovim vs Vim and see what are their differences.

neovim

Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability (by zeertzjq)
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neovim Vim
1 424
0 34,912
- 1.5%
0.0 9.9
2 days ago 2 days ago
Vim Script Vim Script
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Vim License
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neovim

Posts with mentions or reviews of neovim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-07.
  • Auto Session - Updated to track cwd changes!
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 7 Aug 2022
    Auto Session PR: https://github.com/rmagatti/auto-session/pull/153 Neovim commit that enabled this change: https://github.com/zeertzjq/neovim/commit/059d36e326e31fc9bc6055d7c999f86d94fa9bd5 Vim commit that enabled this change: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/9721

Vim

Posts with mentions or reviews of Vim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-05.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing neovim and Vim you can also consider the following projects:

auto-session - A small automated session manager for Neovim

neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

Geany - A fast and lightweight IDE

KDevelop - Cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP

calcurse - A text-based calendar and scheduling application

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

swiper - Ivy - a generic completion frontend for Emacs, Swiper - isearch with an overview, and more. Oh, man!

Atom - :atom: The hackable text editor

lite-xl - A lightweight text editor written in Lua

octo.nvim - Edit and review GitHub issues and pull requests from the comfort of your favorite editor

GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs

Brackets - An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.