Croft is a VS Code inspired terminal user interface text editor.
It’s designed for developers who want a familiar project editing environment inside the terminal, combining a multi-pane editor layout with integrated project navigation, search, version control, and terminal access.
Three panes in the VS Code arrangement: an Explorer sidebar on the left, a code editor top right, and a real terminal bottom right. An activity bar down the far left switches the sidebar between Explorer, Search, Source Control, a Remote (SSH) explorer, and Run and Debug, and holds the theme picker. Every seam drags to resize.
The editor brings tree-sitter highlighting, inline previews for images / PDFs / spreadsheets, side-by-side splits, an optional vim mode, and full LSP (completion, hover, go-to-definition, rename, diagnostics). A Command Palette (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P) runs every command, and you can debug Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, C, and C++ with breakpoints over DAP or attach a pdb REPL to a live process.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides a VS Code style terminal interface for editing projects.
- Includes integrated explorer, search, version control, and embedded terminal views.
- Supports Vim-style modal editing and keyboard-driven navigation.
- Displays inline images and file-specific icons using Nerd Fonts.
- Works well in SSH sessions for editing code on remote systems.
Website: codeberg.org/vitali87/croft
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Developer: Vitali Avagyan
License: MIT License
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