$ be notes.md

The text editor for your terminal.

For writing, mathematics and code, on Windows and Linux. Markdown with a live preview, formulas as pictures, grammar checking and language servers, in the terminal you already have open.

~5 ms from key to screen ~25 MB on its own MIT licence Windows 10/11 · Linux x64
BlueEdit showing a Markdown note with a typeset formula and a chart, in Windows Terminal

# In the terminal you use

A console program, not a window of its own: it runs where your shell runs, at the desk or over SSH. The command is be, as mc is Midnight Commander.

Windows Terminal

An entry of its own in the new tab menu, with its font and colours. Formula pictures through Sixel graphics.

Linux terminals

.deb and .rpm packages, or one binary. Shortcuts in any keyboard layout through the kitty keyboard protocol.

Over SSH

Checkers and language servers install from the command line: be --install-tools.

As $EDITOR

For git commits and coding assistants that open your editor; Shift+F10 saves all and exits.

BlueEdit in the new tab menu of Windows Terminal