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Nova vs VimR: What are the differences?

Developers describe Nova as "The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor". It is the new native code editor for Mac. It is packed with features, built for modern workflows, lightning-fast and stylish. It also has a robust extensions architecture and replaces Code for Mac. On the other hand, VimR is detailed as "Refined Vim Experience for OS X". Project VimR is an attempt to refine the Vim experience. The goal is to build an editor that uses Vim inside with many of the convenience GUI features similar to those present in modern editors for Mac.

Nova and VimR belong to "Text Editor" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Nova are:

  • A powerful editor
  • A themeable interface
  • Flexible workflows

On the other hand, VimR provides the following key features:

  • Full Vim
  • File Browser
  • Fuzzy File Find

VimR is an open source tool with 4.88K GitHub stars and 148 GitHub forks. Here's a link to VimR's open source repository on GitHub.

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    Beautiful
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    Fluid and Fast
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      Mac only
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      What is Nova?

      It is the new native code editor for Mac. It is packed with features, built for modern workflows, lightning-fast and stylish. It also has a robust extensions architecture and replaces Code for Mac.

      What is VimR?

      Project VimR is an attempt to refine the Vim experience. The goal is to build an editor that uses Vim inside with many of the convenience GUI features similar to those present in modern editors for Mac.

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