[email protected]:~$ ls alternatives/nano

Beginner-friendly alternatives to nano

Terminal editors with familiar shortcuts (Ctrl-S, Ctrl-C), mouse support and syntax highlighting, no modal editing required.

# 7 tools, most-starred first

micro
Go
A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
★ 29.7KText Editors10 years old
- tui
- micro
- editor
- command-line
- golang
- cross-platform
- +1
edit
Rust
We all edit.
★ 14.7KText Editors1 year old
- editor
- terminal
fresh
Rust
A powerful terminal text editor and IDE.
★ 9.3KText Editors1 year old
- IDE
- editor
- terminal-based
slap
JavaScript
Sublime-like terminal-based text editor
★ 6.2KText Editors12 years old
- tui
- editor
- code-editor
- ide
ox
Rust
The simple but flexible text editor
★ 3.7KText Editors6 years old
- crossterm
- editor
- editors
- ox
- terminal
- terminal-based
- +1
ttt
Go
A terminal text editor IDE. A real alternative to VS Code, Zed, and Sublime that runs in your terminal. Single binary, zero config.
★ 655Text Editors9 months old
- tui
- editor
- code-editor
- ide
- cli
- golang
- +10
PNANA
C++
pnana is a modern terminal text editor built with FTXUI, inspired by Nano, Micro, and Sublime Text.
★ 328Text Editors9 months old
- tui
- ftxui
- lsp
- software-development

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