tome

Tom's Editor. Maybe should be THE (Tom's Hubristic Editor)

This is:

• A brand new command line editor
• Written in Node.js
• Intended to stay small and scrappy
• A modeless editing experience
• following ordinary UI conventions as much as that fits with the above
• Focused on editing JS, HTML, Vue single-file components and markdown

Status

• Alpha quality. I'm using it to write it, so I'll probably know pretty quick if it's a hot mess, but you should definitely use git and watch out for surprises.

Plan

• Bootstrap this very quickly into something I can stand to use to edit JavaScript, just enough to work on it and see the problems. DONE
• Fix the flicker LOL
• Find
• Find and Replace
• Undo/redo
• Why do emojis act weird?
• File locking for the actual file
• Make the js stuff file extension specific
• Make the js stuff work in a script tag too
• Add some HTML stuff
• Respect .editorconfig

Install

npm install -g @boutell/tome

Usage

tome some-file-you-want-to-edit

It's fine to create a new file.

Commands

• Keyboard select by holding down shift with up, down, left, right
• Cut, copy, paste with control-X, control-C, control-V
• Save and keep working with Control-S
• Exit, with optional save, via Control-W

Working with multiple files

Start as many tome commands as you want in separate terminals. The clipboard is automatically shared. Just copy in one and paste in another.