Flow Control

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.