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Hackable modal text editor for modern terminals

6 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2025-06-30 · latest 2026-03-11

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  1. …of steadily working on some other project. Good news is more bugs you fix, less bugs is left. https://github.com/ivanjermakov/hat
    comment by ivanjermakov · 2026-03-11 · in Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it
  2. …philosopy. Modal, suckless/assemble it yourself, extremely hackable, plenty fast, written in Zig. https://github.com/ivanjermakov/hat
  3. …terminal emulator-specific logic. As long as every buffer byte is displayed and editable, we're ok. https://github.com/ivanjermakov/hat/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING... And I do basic codepoint range check to find its approximate width:…
  4. Me too. It took ~4 months of development, but was fun. https://github.com/ivanjermakov/hat
    comment by ivanjermakov · 2025-10-18 · in IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)
  5. …was not a pleasant experience and took more steps than it should. [1]: https://suckless.org/ [2]: https://github.com/ivanjermakov/hat
    comment by ivanjermakov · 2025-09-30 · in Users only care about 20% of your application
  6. Suckless text editor written in Zig: https://github.com/ivanjermakov/hat The goal is to have a full featured editor with tree-sitter and LSP support which source code you can read through in one evening. Love how it's going so far, I'm…
    comment by ivanjermakov · 2025-06-30 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)