Orbiton is a configuration-free little text editor and IDE for the terminal.
It has the leading principles:
- Minimal annoyance (within the limits of VT100).
- Not be configurable, to help users stay focused (with the exception of themes).
- Facilitate rapid edit-format-compile-run cycles.
Use cases:
- Writing git commit messages (using EDITOR=o git commit).
- Editing README.md and TODO.md files.
- Writing Markdown and then exporting to HTML or PDF.
- Learning programming languages, like Rust or Zig.
- Editing files deep within larger Go or C++ projects.
- Solving Advent of Code tasks.
- Being placed on a live image for a Linux or BSD distro, since it supports VT100, is small and self-contained, has a built-in log, man page and image viewer, has an optional nano/pico mode, can be used as EDITOR=o visudo and has built-in support for neatly formatting /etc/fstab files.
- Writing any number of words in a distraction-free fullscreen environment (toggle the status bar by pressing ctrl-g to see the word count).
Website: github.com/xyproto/orbiton
Support:
Developer: Alexander F. Rødseth
License: BSD 3-Clause “New” or “Revised” License
Orbiton is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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