Flow Control is a programmer's text editor for the terminal. It has tabs, palettes and full mouse support, multiple cursors, clipboard history, infinite undo and smooth scrolling, and opens very large files quickly. Syntax highlighting for more than 70 languages comes from tree-sitter parsers built into the editor, together with its themes. Keybinding modes are included for Flow (similar to VS Code), Emacs, Vim and Helix; press F4 to switch between them.

The editor command is flow-control. To type flow instead, run:

sudo snap alias flow-control flow

Examples

flow-control ~/notes.md
flow-control src/main.c:120
flow-control README.md +40
flow-control --language bash ~/scripts/backup
flow-control --project ~/code/myapp
flow-control --list-languages

Press F1 for the manual, Ctrl+Shift+P or Alt+X for the command palette and Ctrl+F2 for the list of keybindings. A terminal with 24-bit color, a Nerd Font and a UTF-8 locale is recommended.

File access

Flow Control can edit files in your home directory. To also edit files on USB drives and other removable media (/media, /mnt), run:

sudo snap connect flow-control:removable-media

The configuration is stored in ~/snap/flow-control/current/.config/flow.

Strict confinement

git and ripgrep are included, so git status, the project file list and find in files work. Language servers, formatters and other programs installed on your computer cannot be started from the editor, so code completion, diagnostics and formatting through them are not available.