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 · 3 hand-coded · 16 unlabelled
Operator · 19 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 19 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21nedit0★5 moliveopen sourceA graphical text editor for Unix systems that offers an easy-to-navigate interface for programmers and general users.
- 22scooter0★5 moliveopen sourceInteractive find-and-replace tool that lets users search and edit text in the terminal.
- 23realvim0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceLightweight terminal text editor written in Rust for fast and efficient command-line editing.
- 24projectdo0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that provides context-aware single-letter shortcuts to speed up terminal workflow commands.
- 25tattoy0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceText-based terminal compositor for rendering and arranging terminal scenes and graphics.
- 26runal0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceText-based creative coding environment for the terminal.
- 27ttynote0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based text editor written in C for efficient lightweight editing.
- 28tea-qt0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceText editor for Linux, BSD, Windows, OS/2, Mac, and Haiku with PDF and DJVU support.
- 29clipboard0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal application for cutting, copying, and pasting arbitrary content in terminal sessions.
- 30clipboard-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal application for cutting, copying, and pasting arbitrary content in terminal sessions.
- 31vy0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceVim-like text editor written in Python for terminal-based text editing.
- 32vim-cli-git-runtime0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line text editor with extensive configuration options and a rich plugin ecosystem.
- 33teapot0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal table editor and planner with a 3D interface for math-oriented users.
- 34emact0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourcePortable Emacs clone providing text editing in X Windows or terminal with a Lisp interpreter.
- 35wpunix-bin0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based word processing application for creating and editing documents on character terminals.
- 36omnia0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceClojure REPL that offers editor-like editing capabilities inside the terminal without being a full editor.
- 37suplemon0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceConsole text editor with multi-cursor support.
- 38Helix0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal-based modal text editor that provides code intelligence and multi-cursor editing for developers.
- 39mle0★5 moliveopen sourceA terminal-based text editor with flexible configuration for efficient editing.
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.