Modal Code Editors for Developer

alpha2phi
5 min readJun 6, 2021

A list of less commonly known modern code editors which support modal editing.

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Overview

In an earlier article, I talked about embedding Neovim in browsers and Visual Studio Code using Firenvim and VSCode Neovim. For developers, there are simply too many code editors for us to choose from. From Vim, Emacs till more modern code editors like Atom, Sublime, Neovim, VSCode just to name a few.

Personally, I would encourage developers to learn and use modal editing. Vim/Neovim supports this natively. For Emacs we have evil-mode, and for VSCode we can use plugins like VSCodeVim or VSCode Neovim. Almost all modern code editors support modal editing in one way or another.

In this article let’s go through a few less commonly know modal code editors.

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alpha2phi

Software engineer, Data Science and ML practitioner.