gphalkes/tilde
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The Tilde text editor
13 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 11 comments · first 2021-11-06 · latest 2026-09-11
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…shortcuts like ctrl-f to find, ctrl-s to save, ctrl-z to undo,... Less known, there is also tilde : https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde
comment by az09mugen · 2026-09-11 · in Txt: A fast, keyboard-driven terminal text editor for engineers -
…input area or in gnome-text-editor (Ctrl-Shift-Up/Down was one I directly ran into). I've found https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde to work quite well, it also supports the system clipboard. Nice to see a Rust alternative.
comment by Klasiaster · 2025-12-04 · in Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust -
Try Tilde. https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde
comment by lproven · 2025-10-19 · in IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023) -
As above -- also Tilde which in my testing is much superior to either mcedit or eFTE. https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde
comment by lproven · 2025-10-19 · in IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023) -
Today there's Tilde. https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde
comment by lproven · 2025-10-19 · in IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023) -
I totally agree. I use Tilde myself, which is very close. https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde I have written about it: "Tilde, a text editor that doesn't work like it's 1976" https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/17/tilde_text_editor/ Nobody…
comment by lproven · 2025-09-11 · in A desktop environment without graphics (tmux-like) -
Tilde. It's splendid. https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde
comment by lproven · 2024-05-31 · in GNU Nano 8 comes with modern key bindings -
…know if it can be of any help for you, but at the moment on the terminal I mostly use: - Tilde: https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde - Textadept: https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept Or "Geany IDE" on desktop environment (while waiting…
comment by malloc-0x90 · 2023-09-21 · in Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminal -
…alot of command line junkies here which might be against it -- but what's wrong with Tilde? (1) 1. https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde
comment by hungryforcodes · 2023-08-18 · in micro – A Modern Alternative to nano -
…is faster for bigger files, and it runs and compile everywhere; TextAdept even has code folding. - https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde - https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/
comment by malloc-0x90 · 2023-08-18 · in micro – A Modern Alternative to nano -
Try tilde editor. It's close-ish. 1. https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde
comment by tuatoru · 2023-08-18 · in micro – A Modern Alternative to nano