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Terminal based IDE & text editor: easy, powerful and fast

19 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 5 stories, 14 comments · first 2025-12-03 · latest 2026-10-29

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  1. For me the most easy-to-use editor for cli / ssh and relatively lightweight is https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh everybody can just use it intuitively.
    comment by Rucadi · 2026-10-29 · in NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto
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    Fresh: Terminal based IDE and text editor: easy, powerful and fast
    story by linkdd · 2026-09-12 · 1 comment
  3. A comparison with editors like micro https://github.com/micro-editor/micro or fresh https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh (discussed in the comments) would make more sense than one with vim and emacs. The shortcuts are CUA based. And to me…
    comment by az09mugen · 2026-09-11 · in Txt: A fast, keyboard-driven terminal text editor for engineers
  4. Also https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh which is micro "on steroids" (i dislike the expression but can't think of a better one now)
    comment by testycool · 2026-09-11 · in Txt: A fast, keyboard-driven terminal text editor for engineers
  5. …at the existing CI the maintainer has in place to build the binary deb, you'll see what I mean: https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh/blob/master/.github/workflo... . The maintainer already has this, and it would need to be completely re-done…
    comment by kyrofa · 2026-08-12 · in I hate packaging my software for Linux
  6. Looks like a nice editor (not an IDE), will give it a spin. Have you seen Fresh? https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh
    comment by pancsta · 2026-06-17 · in Show HN: TTT – A terminal IDE with standard keybindings, no modal editing
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    Fresh: Terminal based IDE and text editor
    story by sudenmorsian · 2026-06-05 · 0 comments
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    $100 to a Debian Developer who can get Fresh Editor into Trixie
    story by jph · 2026-05-31 · 14 comments
  9. …Update: a developer just now created a Fresh IDE pull request, thanks to this incentive. See https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh/pull/2093
    comment by jph · 2026-05-24 · in $100 to upgrade Fresh IDE for ePub TUI reading
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    $100 to upgrade Fresh IDE for ePub TUI reading
    story by jph · 2026-05-24 · 5 comments
  11. …) to work but it basically it's an editor I would use. For now fresh ( https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh/tree/master ) seems to be very promising. Anyway I traded very happily the command palette Ctrl-Shift-P in Sublime for M-x an
    comment by az09mugen · 2026-02-19 · in ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory
  12. Have a look also at this https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh
    comment by GracefullyShot · 2026-01-28 · in Show HN: PNANA - A TUI Text Editor
  13. …the box. LSP as well. I'm focused on making it easy to use with minimum or zero configuration. [0] https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh [1] https://sinelaw.github.io/fresh/
    comment by _sinelaw_ · 2026-01-06 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed
  14. Thanks! Will take a look. Opened https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh/issues/231
    comment by _sinelaw_ · 2025-12-04 · in Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
  15. …do you have with programming and reviewing? For example: extract_config_structs in build.rs ( https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh/commit/a9f2fbc74b86840fe441... ) does not, in fact, do what the comment says.
    comment by lionkor · 2025-12-04 · in Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
  16. Will do. https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh/issues/229
    comment by _sinelaw_ · 2025-12-04 · in Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
  17. Good point, I'll change it to something more sensible with action-based options instead of y/n. https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh/issues/226
    comment by _sinelaw_ · 2025-12-04 · in Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
  18. 1. CI looks unhealthy: https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh/actions/workflows/ci.yml 2. Thank you for running builds on ubuntu 22.04 so it's compatible with it. You might want to compile with cross or zig to support even older operating…
    comment by esafak · 2025-12-04 · in Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
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    Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
    story by _sinelaw_ · 2025-12-03 · 150 comments