Fresh-TUI

HomePage | RecentChanges | EditorIndex | TextEditorFamilies | Preferences

No diff available--this is the first major revision. (no other diffs)

 Fresh brings the intuitive, conventional UX of editors like VS Code and Sublime Text to the terminal.

 Author:       Noam Lewis
 Homepage:     https://sinelaw.github.io/fresh/
 Information:  https://sinelaw.github.io/blog/2025/12/07/the-open-source-libraries-powering-fresh.html
 Download:     https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh/releases/latest
 Family:       RustEditorFamily
 Platform:     Linux, BSD, macOS, Windows
 License:      GPL-2.0

 Screenshot:

While veterans like Emacs and Vim - and newer editors like Neovim and Helix - are excellent for power users who prefer modal, highly specialized workflows, they often present a steep learning curve for those used to standard GUI interactions. Fresh is built for the developer who wants a familiar, non-modal experience out-of-the-box, without sacrificing the speed and portability of the command line. Keyboard bindings, mouse support, menus, command palette etc. are all designed to be familiar to most modern users.

Architecturally, Fresh is built to handle multi-gigabyte files or slow network streams efficiently, maintaining a negligible memory overhead regardless of file size. While traditional editors struggle with latency and RAM bloat on large files, Fresh delivers consistent, high-speed performance on any scale.

The goal for Fresh is to be an intuitive and accessible, high-performance terminal-based editor that "just works" on any hardware, for everyone.