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fresh-editor

brew install fresh-editor v0.4.1 GPL-2.0-or-later

Terminal text editor and IDE written in Rust, emphasizing ease of use and performance.

Why you might care

Fresh provides a lightweight, terminal-native editing environment with IDE-like features (syntax highlighting, project navigation) without the overhead of Vim or Emacs learning curves. Single Rust binary, fast startup, and designed for quick daily editing tasks in the shell.

Categories

editor terminal-utility

Alternatives

vim neovim emacs nano micro
2.7k
30-day installs · #836
9.1k
90-day · #847
21.2k
365-day · #1035

Build dependencies

rust

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