Easyedit

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🧩 EasyEdit

🤖 Vibe Coding Experiment — No human-written code allowed.
Every line of this editor is authored by AI agents.
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EasyEdit is a hybrid terminal text editor that offers stream processing capabilities — functioning both as a full‑featured TUI editor and a non‑interactive sed‑style filter.

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✨ Features

Mode	Description
🖥️ TUI Editor	Full terminal UI with syntax highlighting for 200+ languages, multi‑cursor editing, undo/redo, and command mode
⚡ Stream Mode	Non‑interactive stdin/stdout processing — ideal for CI/CD, shell pipelines, and in‑place edits
📦 Gap Buffer	Efficient text storage for large files
🔁 Undo/Redo	Full history stack (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y)
🌍 Cross‑Platform	Pre‑built binaries available for 24+ platforms, including Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, ARM, RISC‑V, and more

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🚀 Quick Start

📥 Installation

Option 1: Download Prebuilt Binary (Recommended)
Visit the Releases page – binaries are available for Linux, macOS, Windows, and many more.

Option 2: Go Install

go install github.com/0xA672/Easyedit@latest

Option 3: Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/0xA672/Easyedit.git
cd Easyedit
go build -o easyedit .

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▶️ Usage Examples

Interactive Mode

easyedit                # Open an empty buffer
easyedit main.go        # Open an existing file

Stream Mode (sed‑like)

# Replace text in a pipeline
echo "hello world" | easyedit -s -e 's/world/Go/g'

# Delete lines matching a pattern
cat log.txt | easyedit -s -e '/DEBUG/d'

# In-place file editing
easyedit -s -i -e 's/foo/bar/g' file.txt

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📚 Documentation

Detailed guides are available in the /docs folder:

• Installation Guide
• User Manual
• Configuration
• Contributing

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🤝 Contributors Signature Wall

Every AI model that contributed to this project:

Model	Provider	Contribution
DeepSeek-V4-Flash	DeepSeek AI	Core contributor – syntax highlighting optimization, Vix language support
Qwen3.5	Alibaba	Code review & maintenance
GPT-4.1	OpenAI	Architecture design
Claude 4.7	Anthropic	UI enhancements, Vix language support, Stream mode, multi‑language docs
Doubao	ByteDance	Documentation annotations

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🧠 Why “EasyEdit”?

• Easy to use interactively, and easy to script in pipelines.
• Built entirely by AI – a living experiment in vibe‑driven development.
• Lightweight, fast, and portable — a single binary.

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Made with ❤️ using Go and Tcell

Documentation

Overview

EasyEdit — Hybrid terminal text editor.

Usage:

easyedit Open a blank file easyedit <filename> Open specified file

Shortcuts:

Ctrl+S Save Ctrl+Q Quit Ctrl+F Search Ctrl+H Replace Ctrl+A Select All Ctrl+Z Undo Ctrl+Y Redo Ctrl+X Cut Ctrl+C Copy Ctrl+V Paste Alt+W Toggle soft wrap : Enter command mode

Command mode (press : to enter):

:q Quit :q! Force quit (no save) :w Save :wq Save and quit :w <path> Save as :e <path> Open file :10,20d Delete lines 10-20 :%s/old/new/g Replace all :3,5s/old/new Replace in range :set nu Show line numbers :set nonu Hide line numbers :42 Jump to line 42 :uninstall Remove editor binary, config, and backup files

Config file (auto-loaded):

Linux/macOS: ~/.easyedit.toml Windows: %APPDATA%/easyedit/config.toml

Dependencies:

• github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2 (terminal handling)
• github.com/alecthomas/chroma/v2 (syntax highlighting)
• github.com/atotto/clipboard (system clipboard)
• github.com/BurntSushi/toml (config parsing)
• github.com/mattn/go-runewidth (character width)