alt.hn

4/24/2026 at 2:45:02 AM

Nev – keyboard focused GUI and terminal text editor

https://github.com/Nimaoth/Nev

by archargelod

4/24/2026 at 7:07:28 AM

Showing a rich interactive tui like this to 15 year old me would have me convinced I was in a fever dream. It's amazing how far they have come. Seeing debugging is kind of blowing my mind.

by politelemon

4/24/2026 at 6:47:36 AM

Wow, ok, that looks like vscode in the console, isn't it?

by SeriousM

4/24/2026 at 10:44:43 AM

Author here, it definitely has some inspirations from vs code, but I would describe it more like Neovim or Helix, but with a native GUI version and a some things builtin which are plugins in e.g Neovim

by Nimaoth

4/24/2026 at 11:15:03 AM

"without carriage return in line separators"

How have you implemented this? That is really trivial. Well compared to writing a text editor. I say this as the author of several failed text editors, so I'm not suggesting you lack the skills.

by benj111

4/24/2026 at 11:27:19 AM

Carriage returns get filtered out when loading files, so the in memory representation always only has line feeds. And when saving it just save the in memory representation (so UTF-8 and with line feeds). I haven't added support for saving it with the original encoding and line endings because I never needed it, but yeah that should be easy to add. But for the internal representation I would probably still only use line feeds because supporting carriage returns in there would make some things more complex

by Nimaoth