text-editor

VIM/NeoVIM/Emacs Evil Mode/Helix/Kakoune -like cross-platform terminal based text editor

The plan is to create a text editor that can edit (almost) anything and (almost) anywhere. Like a local config file, or a level.dat NBT file in a remote server over both SSH and Docker.

Remote editing should work like TRAMP in Emacs.

Buffers have a mode for the content type, like text, hex, NBT, or other binary formats.

Example usage

# just a normal local file
text-editor src/main.rs

# use sudo to edit /etc/fstab
text-editor sudo:/etc/fstab

# connect to user1@host1 using ssh, then connect to user2@host2 from host1 and open 'file'
text-editor ssh:user1@host1|ssh:user2@host2:file

Screenshots

normal file editing

file explorer and editor over ssh

command suggestions

TODOs

• file editing
• remote (ssh/sudo/docker/..) file editing
• SSH/sudo askpass somehow
• multiple buffers
• file picker
• buffer picker
• welcome message
• selections
• hex editor
• NBT editor
• text-editor configuration
• syntax highlighting
• LSP