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Ziro is a featherlight terminal text editor (TUI) for Linux. No Electron. No Chromium. No unnecessary layers.

It opens before you finish blinking. It stays out of your way.

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why

Every modern editor makes you pay somewhere.

VSCode ships a whole browser to edit text. Neovim gives you unlimited power after a configuration ritual. Zed is promising but still finding its place on Linux. Sublime costs money.

Ziro is the editor that should have existed already — lightweight, instant, and built for developers who actually care about their tools.

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install

Stable — prebuilt binary, no Rust required:

curl -sSL https://ziro.faizeenhoque.dev/install.sh | bash

Rolling — builds from latest main, requires Cargo:

curl -sSL https://ziro.faizeenhoque.dev/install-rolling.sh | bash

Note

Stable is recommended for most users. Rolling tracks the latest commit on main and may be unstable.

Warning

Both scripts require sudo to move the binary to /usr/local/bin. Read the script before running if you're cautious about piping curl to bash.

→ Full usage guide and keybinds

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goals

• Fast cold launch. Measured, not estimated.
• Native terminal experience. Runs anywhere your shell does.
• Rope-based text engine. Edits at any scale without copying the world.
• Tree-sitter syntax highlighting. Incremental, correct, fast.
• LSP support. Autocomplete, go-to-definition, diagnostics — the full deal.
• Zero config to start. Sane defaults. Customize when you want to, not before you can use it.
• Minimal resource usage. A text editor should not need half your RAM.

editor features

• File explorer sidebar. Browse folders in place and open files without leaving the editor.
• Tabbed files. Open files stay in a tab bar for quick switching and closing, and tabs can be reordered by dragging.
• Drag-and-drop file moves. Drag files or folders in the explorer to move them in place.
• Filename prompt. Saving an unnamed buffer opens a prompt so you can choose a path.
• Undo / redo. Consecutive edits are grouped into practical undo steps.
• Status feedback. Saves, cancels, and invalid actions surface in the status bar.

keybindings

• Ctrl+E toggles the file explorer.
• Ctrl+S saves the current file or opens the filename prompt for a new buffer.
• Ctrl+W closes the current tab.
• Ctrl+Alt+W exits immediately when the buffer is clean.
• Ctrl+Z undoes the last change.
• Ctrl+Shift+Z redoes the last undone change.
• Esc cancels the filename prompt without saving.

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stack

Layer	Tech
Language	Rust
UI	TUI (ratatui)
Text buffer	ropey
Syntax	tree-sitter
Config	toml + serde
Async	tokio

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status

Caution

Ziro is in early development. Nothing is stable. Everything is being built. Do not use this as your daily driver yet.

• Project scaffold
• Terminal interface
• Editor UI
• File open/save
• Syntax highlighting
• LSP integration
• Config system
• Plugin system

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building

git clone https://github.com/FaizeenHoque/ziro
cd ziro
cargo run

Requires Rust 1.78+. That's it.

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license

MIT © 2026 Faizeen Hoque