The Tilde Text Editor

About Tilde

Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. For example, the short-cut to copy the current selection is Control-C, and to paste the previously copied text the short-cut Control-V can be used. As another example, the File menu can be accessed by pressing Meta-F.

However, being a terminal-based program there are limitations. Not all terminals provide sufficient information to the client programs to make Tilde behave in the most intuitive way. When this is the case, Tilde provides work-arounds which should be easy to work with.

The main audience for Tilde is users who normally work in GUI environments, but sometimes require an editor for a console/terminal environment. This may be because the computer in question is a server which does not provide a GUI, or is accessed remotely over SSH. Tilde allows these users to edit files without having to learn a completely new interface, such as vi or Emacs do. A result of this choice is that Tilde will not provide all the fancy features that Vim or Emacs provide, but only the most used features.

News

Tilde version 1.1.3 released

This release fixes the display of the file name in the info line when it contains double-width characters.

29-Jan-2022

Tilde version 1.1.2 released

This release fixes a bug where Tilde would discard read lines before an invalid character, while requested to continue reading.

23-May-2020

Tilde version 1.1.1 released

This release fixes a build failure on C++14 and later compilers

12-Dec-2019

Getting help

There are several ways to get help, should you have problems using, installing or building Tilde:

For online support, try the #tilde IRC channel on freenode (webchat).
Alternatively, questions, discussions etc. can be posted on the mailing list tilde-text-editor <at> googlegroups.com.
For bug reports or feature suggestions, please file a bug in the github bugtracker.