erf / vid

A minimal vi-like text editor for modern terminals written in Dart ✨

vid

A minimal vi-like text editor for the terminal written in Dart 😎

Note: for fun and learning; not meant to replace your current editor ;)

Features 📋

• a minimal fast modal vi-like text editor for the terminal ⚡️
• correct rendering, editing and cursor movement of emojis and EastAsianWide ❤️‍🔥
• made for modern terminals that supports mode 2027 (e.g. Ghostty, WezTerm) 🧠
• written in pragmatic Dart using the characters package ✨
• unlimited undo (and redo) ↩️

Non-goals ❌

• no syntax highlighting (we just use terminal bg / fg colors)
• no plugins (let's keep things minimal)
• no window manager (open a new tab or use terminal split features)
• no 100 % vim compat (we only support a minimal subset)
• no pre-built binaries (just build it yourself)

Keyboard shortcuts ↔️

See bindings.dart

Contributing 🙋‍♂️

I enjoy building vid on my own but I'm open to PR's that align with vid's minimal philosophy.

I won't accept issues solely for suggestions.

Thanks for considering! 🚀