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.
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap can be installed from the command line on openSUSE Leap 15.x and Tumbleweed.
You need first add the snappy repository from the terminal. Choose the appropriate command depending on your installed openSUSE flavor.
Tumbleweed:
sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Tumbleweed snappy
Leap 15.x:
sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Leap_15.6 snappy
If needed, Swap out openSUSE_Leap_15. for, openSUSE_Leap_16.0 if you’re using a different version of openSUSE.
With the repository added, import its GPG key:
sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh
Finally, upgrade the package cache to include the new snappy repository:
sudo zypper dup --from snappy
Snap can now be installed with the following:
sudo zypper install snapd
You then need to either reboot, logout/login or source /etc/profile to have /snap/bin added to PATH.
Additionally, enable and start both the snapd and the snapd.apparmor services with the following commands:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.apparmor
To install Flow Control, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install flow-control --beta
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
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