CLUSTER EDITING-EDITOR-TERMINAL · 39 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2015-09-21
Terminal text editing tools
A cluster of 38 terminal-centric tools covering text editors, REPL-style editors, compositors, diagram editors, and command-line helpers. The dated history shows sparse entries from 2008 through 2025, with a noticeable increase in new tools from May to July 2026. Traction leaders are ttt, rura-bin, and druk-bin, each at 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 ai-built · 3 hand-coded · 16 unlabelled
Operator · 2 hobby · 18 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01XXI1★19 days—hobbyTerminal text editor for Linux with undo, redo, find, and a built-in terminal for running code.
- 02ttt0★16 daysliveopen sourceTerminal text editor that provides an integrated development environment for programming.
- 03rura-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceInteractive terminal UI editor for building and editing pipelines, designed for rapid iteration.
- 04druk-bin0★20 daysliveopen sourceTerminal-based code editor with a file tree, tabbed editing, search, and git integration for writing code.
- 05maxgus-editor0★25 days—ai-builthobbyTerminal text editor that offers an Emacs-like editing experience with syntax highlighting and language server support.
- 06nved-bin0★19 daysliveopen sourceTerminal text editor with a REPL-style interface for editing code by line numbers and interactively.
- 07nevi0★19 daysliveopen sourceFast terminal text editor designed for programmers, offering efficient editing.
- 08nino0★26 daysliveopen sourceTerminal-based text editor inspired by Kilo for editing text files in the terminal.
- 09pnana0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based text editor for developers that provides modern editing features in the command line.
- 10tuigram-bin0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based sequence diagram editor for creating and editing sequence diagrams.
- 11reflection0★1 moliveopen sourceA collaborative, local-first GTK text editor.
- 12shellql0★3 moliveopen sourceA terminal database manager for developers with Vim and tmux-inspired interface.
- 13vi0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal text editor that implements the classic vi editing interface for efficient file manipulation.
- 14wordstar-rs0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based text editor that replicates a classic DOS word processing program for writing and editing documents.
- 15mste0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based text editor similar to nano, written in Python.
- 16Kate0★4 molivehand-codedopen sourceAdvanced text editor with syntax highlighting, project management, and integrated terminal for programmers.
- 17yoc0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal-based text editor for Unix-like systems, designed to be lightweight and minimalist.
- 18tilde0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA terminal-based text editor that provides an intuitive and efficient editing experience for command-line users.
- 19rextedi0★4 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based text editor designed for efficient code editing and file manipulation.
- 20mote0★5 moliveopen sourceTiny terminal text editor for efficient editing from the command line.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.