vid

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

Note: made for myself for fun and learning 🧐

Features 📋

• a minimal vi-like text editor for the terminal ⚡️
• correct rendering and editing of emojis and EastAsianWide 🍜
• made for modern terminals that supports mode 2027 (e.g. Ghostty, WezTerm) 🧠
• written in pragmatic Dart using the characters package ✨
• undo and redo ↩️
• no-wrap, char-wrap or word-wrap 🎁

Non-goals ❌

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

Keyboard shortcuts ↔️

See bindings.dart

Configuration 📜

See config.dart

Contributing 🙋‍♂️

I enjoy building vid myself but I'm open to pull requests that align with its minimal philosophy.

I don't accept issues solely for suggestions.

Enjoy ✨