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CLUSTER TEXT-COMMAND-EDITING · 14 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2017-03-15

Command-line text editors

This cluster consists of command-line and terminal-based text editors for editing files directly from the terminal, including minimal implementations inspired by ed/ex and Vim, plus a command-line editor for CapCut project files. Entries appeared sporadically across nine distinct months from March 2017 to May 2026, with a slight concentration in early 2026. Traction is led by capcut-editor-cli with 8 stars, while other named members show 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

OCT 2005: 1MAR 2017: 1JAN 2019: 1DEC 2021: 1JAN 2025: 1FEB 2025: 1NOV 2025: 1JAN 2026: 1APR 2026: 2MAY 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 2
OCT 2005SEP 2026

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 · 2 hand-coded · 12 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 13 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 14 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01capcut-editor-cli8★21 days—hand-codedhobbyCommand-line interface to edit CapCut project files while preserving editability of cuts, layouts, and effects.
  2. 02dan0★14 daysliveopen sourceTerminal editor for editing text files directly from the command line.
  3. 03zepto-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal text editor that runs from a single file and requires no dependencies or configuration.
  4. 04nein0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal text editor that opens and edits files from the command line.
  5. 05tedit-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceCommand-line text editor inspired by ed/ex for editing text files in a terminal.
  6. 06python-chibi-command0★2 moliveopen sourceUtility that runs terminal commands from within scripts.
  7. 07text-editor0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceSimple terminal-based text editor for editing files from the command line.
  8. 08nikki-editor0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal-based text editor for editing text files directly from the command line.
  9. 09oed0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourcePortable command-line text editor that provides the classic OpenBSD ed line editor.
  10. 10tyrannus0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based word processor for writing and editing text documents directly from the command line.
  11. 11quill-editor0★11 mostaleliveopen sourceA command-line text editor for editing text files from the terminal.
  12. 12moe-nim0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceVim-inspired command-line text editor that provides editing capabilities for text files.
  13. 13moe0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line text editor that edits plain text files with support for 8-bit character encodings such as ISO-8859-15 and ASCII.
  14. 14smith0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA terminal-based text editor for editing text files in a command-line environment.

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