Yatte

Yatte stands for Yet Another Terminal Text Editor.

Yatte is a minimal, experimental terminal-based text editor written in Ruby.
It focuses on simplicity, raw terminal control, and learning-oriented design rather than feature completeness.

⚠️ Yatte is currently early-stage and not intended for production use.

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Installation

Clone the repository and install dependencies:

bundle install

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/yatte for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Running the tests

rake test

Usage

bundle exec bin/yatte              # Empty buffer
bundle exec bin/yatte <filename>   # Open a file

Ctrl-S to save, Ctrl-Q to quit. See COMMANDS.md for all keyboard shortcuts.

Syntax Highlighting

Yatte includes a pluggable syntax highlighting system with built-in support for:

• Ruby — .rb, .rake, .gemspec, Rakefile, Gemfile
• Markdown — .md, .markdown

See AGENTS.md for instructions on adding support for new languages.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/jpechaves/yatte. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the Yatte project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.