Fluke
a terminal text editor written in C
A modal terminal text editor written in C, kept small enough to read end to end.
> install
> highlights
- Fuzzy-search command palette over the whole buffer
- Highlighting tuned for speed rather than completeness
- Buffer is written out on every signal, so a crash never costs you the file
> related writing
7 Sept 2026
Building Fluke, a terminal text editor in C: modal state machines, escape-sequence input, and why crash recovery matters more than features.