# zee-editor/zee

A modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust

Repository: https://github.com/zee-editor/zee
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/zee
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: text-editor, rust-lang, tree-sitter, ide, async, emacs, rope, cross-platform, incremental-parsing
Last push: 2025-02-06T18:41:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 34/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 5, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2477, "days_push": 573, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1800, forks 55 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:37.933659+00:00)

## What it is
Zee is a modern terminal-based text editor written in Rust, inspired by Emacs. It uses Tree-sitter for incremental syntax parsing and highlighting, a rope data structure for fast buffer editing, and performs rendering and IO asynchronously.

## Use cases
- edit code in the terminal with fast syntax highlighting
- a modern Emacs-like editor written in Rust
- edit large files with millions of lines smoothly
- multi-buffer multi-pane terminal editing
- fuzzy file search and file picking while editing
- on-the-fly syntax validation while coding

## When to choose
- you want a fast, modern terminal editor with Tree-sitter highlighting
- you like Emacs-style editing but want a Rust implementation
- you need to edit very large source files in the terminal

## When to avoid
- you need a fully stable, feature-complete editor like Vim, Neovim, or Emacs
- you rely on a large plugin ecosystem
- you need GUI editing or mouse-heavy workflows

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: experimental
- function: editor, terminal-ui, parser
- domain: text-editors, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cross-platform, cli
- tags: text-editor, tree-sitter, rope, emacs-inspired, syntax-highlighting, rust, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- zee-editor/zee (main) score 34

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:37.933659+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:22:15.819032+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/zee-editor/zee (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:37.933659+00:00, sha b18845c8c73c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.