Tilde
Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. Example: copy current selection is Control-C; paste previously copied text is Control-V.
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Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Syntax Highlighting
- Autocompletion
- Full-Text Search
- Terminal-based
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Tilde News & Activities
Recent activities
POX added Tilde as alternative to Janus Text Editor- K0RR updated Tilde
POX added Tilde as alternative to Notepad.js
Tilde information
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G. Halkes Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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What is Tilde?
Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. For example, the short-cut to copy the current selection is Control-C, and to paste the previously copied text the short-cut Control-V can be used. As another example, the File menu can be accessed by pressing Meta-F.
However, being a terminal-based program there are limitations. Not all terminals provide sufficient information to the client programs to make Tilde behave in the most intuitive way. When this is the case, Tilde provides work-arounds which should be easy to work with.
The main audience for Tilde is users who normally work in GUI environments, but sometimes require an editor for a console/terminal environment. This may be because the computer in question is a server which does not provide a GUI, or is accessed remotely over SSH. Tilde allows these users to edit files without having to learn a completely new interface, such as vi or Emacs do. A result of this choice is that Tilde will not provide all the fancy features that Vim or Emacs provide, but only the most used features.
Comments and Reviews
It is an terminal based text editor that is easy to use for people normally using an GUI-based editor (like VS Code or Notepad++): Mouse based interactions like clicking in menus or selecting text work; so do alt- and Ctrl-based shortcuts.