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Project mention: L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-27
There are quite a few other terminal based spreadsheet people have been doing over the last few years.
Most notably:
https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
Has been in HN often, most recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662658
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Vis editor [0] also has multicursor and powerful sam's structural regular expression
[0]: https://github.com/martanne/vis
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vifm
Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.
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I (somewhat) recently switched from using MP3s to using streaming services. Personally, my music taste and the amount of tracks that I listen to is way more varied now than it was before, but I suppose that depends both on how you use streaming services and how you use local MP3s.
Back when I still used exclusively MP3s, I used Music on Console Player [0] on my personal computer and Snae Player [1] on my school's chromebook, since we were only allowed to use web apps on our Chromebooks. On my phone I found VLC [2] to be the best app since it has so many features. I can highly recommend both programs.
I still have all three installed and use them whenever I don't have internet. Although I haven't updated my local music library in a while, so I am reminded of my old music tastes whenever I open either of them.
[0]: https://github.com/jonsafari/mocp
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dte
A small, configurable terminal text editor (mirrored from https://gitlab.com/craigbarnes/dte) (by craigbarnes)
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nano-win
GNU nano text editor for Windows [WARNING: The master branch is constantly rebased and force-pushed so don't expect it to be steady!! -end WARNING]
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Project mention: I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-20
I was also sick of bash ways of dealing with lots of data, spaces in file names, etc, so I created csv-nix-tools: https://github.com/mslusarz/csv-nix-tools
E.g. removing all temporary files without the need to deal with spaces, glob limits, or silly find syntax:
csv-ls -R -c full_path . | csv-grep -c full_path -e '~$' | csv-exec -- rm -f %full_path
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YtreeNova an XTreeGold-inspired, FOSS keyboard-first Linux file manager built for fast, precise file work. Developed with AI assistance, but it does not run AI itself. https://github.com/robkam/ytreenova
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Unied-Feature-Rich-Terminal-Code-Text-Editor-CLI-Syntax-Highlighting-Custom-Commands-Macros
Unied is a compact, efficient terminal text & code editor using Ncurses, with syntax highlighting, autocomplete commands, custom macros, and full undo/redo history.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source console-application projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | sc-im | 5,691 |
| 2 | vis | 4,713 |
| 3 | vifm | 3,264 |
| 4 | NTop | 1,490 |
| 5 | mtm | 1,212 |
| 6 | mocp | 425 |
| 7 | dte | 239 |
| 8 | nano-win | 233 |
| 9 | fakesteak | 129 |
| 10 | fbida | 78 |
| 11 | tine | 74 |
| 12 | pinfo | 57 |
| 13 | Newtrodit | 45 |
| 14 | csv-nix-tools | 31 |
| 15 | nuru | 18 |
| 16 | ytreenova | 15 |
| 17 | sw | 4 |
| 18 | Unied-Feature-Rich-Terminal-Code-Text-Editor-CLI-Syntax-Highlighting-Custom-Commands-Macros | 4 |
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