Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust

Post by _sinelaw_ » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 6:40 AM UTC

Sn0wCoder wrote: post #89

Just installed on both pop_os and windows 11. On Linux everything seems to work ok. On Windows 11 the mouse only moves to the start of a line, cannot select text at all click anywhere but the very first part of a line. Every now and then it will select some random word on the line but mostly just column 1. Installed with Cargo if that matters using rustc 1.91.1, looks like 1.88.0 is min supported. On pop the mouse wo…

Post by _sinelaw_ » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 6:45 AM UTC

venturecruelty wrote: post #73

_sinelaw_ wrote: post #43

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Sublime, Atom, VSCode, and now Zed are all GUI-based. That's not bad - but I prefer the terminal (and I find tmux + ssh very convenient). I guess it's a matter of personal taste. For terminal based, there are also many options but not so much in the direction of "VSCode style". They're mostly focused on being "vi-style". And also the huge file support isn't as good in any of the others that I've tried.

Vim and Emacs run in the terminal perfectly well.

Post by Aldo_MX » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 7:39 AM UTC

ljm wrote: post #20

_sinelaw_ wrote: post #16

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That (security ) is something I also worry about. I'd like to get off npm if only for this reason. It's a hack to get started. The other thing it gives you is the ability to easily upgrade and uninstall so just a script to copy stuff is not on par.

Thing is… who is regularly running `npm update` or `cargo update` to keep local software up to date? I wouldn’t, because I might be in a repo and it starts upgrading all my local dependencies, and I’m not gonna add a text editor as a dev dependency. I’ll happily take the binary, or a tar.gz with the binary in it, though. (Btw I love how it’s following the old DOS aesthetic)

  n lts && npm uninstall -g corepack && npm update -g && n prune

Post by WhereIsTheTruth » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 8:05 AM UTC

_sinelaw_ wrote: post #36

wg0 wrote: post #32

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Is it 400mb? Could be V8 for plugins.

Thanks for reminding me. Unfortunately yes, it's because of v8 (for Deno). For extensions, the choice was either TypeScript (and get this bloat) or go with Lua and a much smaller binary (but less popular language). But - I just realized stripping it brings it down to 76MB so I guess that's ok! Will push a commit :)

Post by _sinelaw_ » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 8:34 AM UTC

user- wrote: post #86

Great work, my only nitpick is that when you quit, it tells you that its not gonna save, then its yes to confirm quit. I instinctively wanna type N to quit without saving. I feel like thats the opposite behavior. For example, I use https://github.com/zyedidia/micro as my main editor in terminal, where it says `Save changes to filename before closing? (y,n,esc)”` when you try to quit.