[email protected]:~$ ls collections/terminal-text-editors

Terminal text editors

Every text editor in the index that runs in a terminal: modal editors like vim and helix, nano-style editors like micro, and full TUI IDEs like croft and fresh.

# 20 tools, most-starred first

neovim
Vim Script
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
★ 103.5KText Editors12 years old
- api
- neovim
- nvim
- vim
helix
Rust
A post-modern modal text editor.
★ 46.9KText Editors6 years old
- kakoune
- vim
vim
Vim Script
Vim is a greatly improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi.
★ 41.2KText Editors11 years old
- cross-platform
- vim
micro
Go
A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
★ 29.9KText Editors10 years old
- tui
- micro
- editor
- command-line
- golang
- cross-platform
- +1
edit
Rust
We all edit.
★ 14.8KText Editors1 year old
- editor
- terminal
kakoune
C++
mawww's experiment for a better code editor
★ 11.1KText Editors15 years old
- c-plus-plus
- console-application
- kakoune
- modal-editing
- vim
fresh
Rust
A powerful terminal text editor and IDE.
★ 9.4KText 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
emacs
C
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
★ 5.2KText Editors12 years old
- emacs
amp
Rust
A complete text editor for your terminal.
★ 4.1KText Editors11 years old
- terminal
- vim
ox
Rust
The simple but flexible text editor
★ 3.8KText Editors6 years old
- crossterm
- editor
- editors
- ox
- terminal
- terminal-based
- +1
kibi
Rust
A text editor in ≤1024 lines of code, written in Rust
★ 2KText Editors6 years old
- 1024
- console
- editor
- editors
- syntax-highlighting
- terminal
- +2
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.
★ 1.1KText Editors9 months old
- tui
- editor
- code-editor
- ide
- cli
- golang
- +10
ad
Rust
an adaptable text editor
★ 753Text Editors3 years old
- 9p
- acme
- plan9
- regex
- tui
orbiton
Go
Snappy and configuration-free text editor/IDE for the terminal.
★ 719✓ verifiedText Editors7 years old
- command-line
- editor
- freebsd
- gdb
- gleam
- golang
- +10
toast
Go
a batteries-included, beautiful, in-terminal IDE
★ 292Text Editors7 months old
- developer-tools
- ide
- neovim-alternative
- tui
termide
Rust
All-in-one terminal workspace for desktops and servers: editor with LSP, file manager with SFTP/FTP, terminal, git, database viewer and more
★ 186Text Editors11 months old
- cli
- coding-agent
- devops
- file-manager
- hex-editor
- homelab
- +10
cleecode
Rust
CleeCode: a terminal IDE written in Rust — micro-style editor, file tree, integrated terminals, syntax highlighting, classic drop-down menu
★ 91Text Editors3 months old
- cli
- editor
- ide
- ratatui
- terminal
- tui
croft
Rust
VSCode-style TUI written in Rust
★ 68Text Editors6 months old
- android
- extensions
- ghostty
- iterm2
- linux
- lsp
- +8
Kiwi
C++
A Windows-native modal terminal editor built around WASD navigation.
★ 2Text Editors1 month old
- command-line
- console
- cpp
- cpp23
- editor
- terminal
- +4

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