Crabsy 🦀

A little text editor in your terminal, inspired by GNU nano. Written in Rust.

Features

• Syntax highlighting for various programming languages
• Mouse support for scrolling and cursor positioning
• Search functionality with match highlighting
• Line numbers with current line highlighting
• Tab support with auto-indentation
• macOS-friendly key bindings using Cmd instead of Ctrl

Usage

# Edit a new file
crabsy

# Open an existing file
crabsy filename.txt

Key Bindings

• Cmd+S: Save file
• Cmd+F: Search
• Cmd+G: Show help
• Cmd+Esc: Exit
• F3: Find next match

Installation

cargo build --release

The binary will be available at target/release/crabsy.

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Crabsy is a learning project exploring terminal UI development in Rust using ratatui.