affe
a user-friendly text editor
Full Mouse Support
Scrolling, clicking, text selection
Git Integration
Inline Git diff and Git minimap
Autocompletion
Fuzzy autocompletion triggered by Ctrl + Tab
Inline Git Blame
Colored commits show code changes
Find & Replace
Powerful find & replace functionality
Keyboard Shortcuts
Familiar keyboard shortcuts for text editing & navigation
Get Creative
Draw some diagrams: affe <file>.paint
Download
Current version
Installation via command line
curl -fsS https://affe.sh/install | sh
Works on Linux and macOS
Requires Python 3.10 or higher
Releases
Source code
What is affe?
"A terminal-based editor enhanced with some fancy features."
affe is an acronym for a full-fledged editor.
Also, affe means monkey in German.
Features
🖥️ Terminal-Based
- No GUI
- Runs in a terminal (even over SSH)
- Like vim, nano, etc.
👤 User-Friendly
- Full mouse support
- Scrolling
- Clicking
- Text selection
- Easy to remember keyboard shortcuts
- Esc: Exit
- Ctrl+C: Copy
- Ctrl+V: Paste
- Ctrl+S: Save
- ...
🌐 Cross-Platform
- Written in Python 3
- Runs on every CPU architecture supported by Python:
- x86
- x86-64
- arm
- arm64
- ...
- Runs on every operating system supported by Python:
- Linux
- macOS
- Windows
- QNX
🔧 Git Integration
- Inline Git diff & Git minimap (like in an IDE)
- Inline Git blame (switchable)
- Option to restore file content (revert local changes)
🔤 Text Completion
- Fuzzy autocomplete functionality
Example:
Starting autocompletion on the string arg could return the following suggestions:- argparse
- ArgumentParser
- addRegularGrammarRule
- defaultArgs
🔍 Find & Replace
- Find & Replace functionality
- Forward and backward search
- Find options:
- Match case-sensitive
- Match case-insensitive
- Replace options:
- Replace one occurrence
- Replace all occurrences
🎨 Syntax Highlighting
- Using Pygments lexers
- Updates instantly while typing
- Support for over 600 languages & other text formats
