🧩 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
🎮 Vim Modes	Complete Vim-style mode switching (NORMAL/INSERT/VISUAL/COMMAND) with configurable behavior
📦 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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🎮 Vim Mode Support

EasyEdit now supports complete Vim-style mode switching! Enable it in your configuration:

# ~/.easyedit.toml or %APPDATA%/easyedit/config.toml
vim_mode = true      # Enable Vim modes (default: false)
show_mode = true     # Show mode indicator in status bar (default: true)
show_line_num = true # Show line numbers (default: true)

Mode Types

• NORMAL - Navigation and commands (h/j/k/l, w/b, gg/G, etc.)
• INSERT - Text input (press i, a, o, etc. from Normal mode)
• VISUAL - Text selection (press v or V from Normal mode)
• COMMAND - Execute ex commands (press : from any mode)
• SEARCH - Search text (press / from Normal mode)

Quick Reference

Action	Normal Mode Key	Description
Enter Insert	i	Insert before cursor
Append	a	Append after cursor
New Line Below	o	Open new line below
New Line Above	O	Open new line above
Undo	u	Undo last change
Redo	r	Redo last change
Yank (Copy)	y	Copy selection/text
Delete	d	Delete selection/text
Paste	p	Paste from clipboard
Visual Mode	v	Enter visual mode
Visual Line	V	Enter visual line mode
Word Forward	w	Jump to next word
Word Backward	b	Jump to previous word
Line Start	0	Go to line beginning
Line End	$	Go to line end
File Start	gg	Go to file beginning
File End	G	Go to file end

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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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