Mle is a small, flexible, terminal-based text editor written in C

• kakoune

  110 9,571 9.7 C++

  mawww's experiment for a better code editor

For that, try Kakoune[1], which is modal with a mostly-postfix language instead of vi's usually-prefix one and uses this to also be a multiple-selections editor with immediate visual feedback. It falls too much into the uncanny valley of almost-but-not-quite-vi for some people, though.

[1] https://kakoune.org/, https://github.com/mawww/kakoune

• mle

  9 765 7.1 C

  flexible terminal-based text editor (C)

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• vis

  56 4,160 8.2 C

  A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions (by martanne)

• termbox2

  4 304 6.7 C

  suckless terminal rendering library

  

I saw this editor recently as a consequence of noticing that there seems to be a rewrite of the termbox library (ncurses alternative) in progress: https://github.com/termbox/termbox2

• micro-editor

  227 23,872 8.9 Go

  A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

> The default key bindings are intuitive. Input text as normal, use directional keys to move around, use Ctrl-S to save, Ctrl-O to open, Ctrl-X to exit.

Ctrl-X to exit is not intuitive. That's used to cut text almost everywhere. Instead, use Ctrl-Q (quit) to exit.

It's been 35 years since CUA[1]. Another terminal editor, micro[2], already adopted these conventions (Ctrl-C to copy, Ctrl-X to cut, Ctrl-V to paste), other terminal editors should as well.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access

[2]: https://micro-editor.github.io/

• alacritty

  352 52,639 9.3 Rust

  A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

  

In fact I tried that before writing the comment, however, I've configured alacritty to run the copy command when I press Ctrl-C and to send Ctrl-C to the running application when I press Ctrl-Shift-C[1], so it didn't work.

[1]: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3696#issuecomm...

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