IDE power at text-editor speed

What's new

A few of the most recent changes. See everything that's shipped.

• A faster editor : Typing, switching tabs, opening files and restoring a session all do less work, and a large file takes less memory. A restored session draws its first frame before building the tabs you are not looking at.
• Local History, reworked : A compact panel with keyboard actions and a diff that follows your edits. Restoring goes into the open tab as an edit you can undo, and one large file cannot push other files' history out.
• Clickable code lenses : A click on a lens opens what it counts. A references lens opens the References tool window, whose previews are colored like the editor.
• Git history and branches : Enter on a commit in a file's Git history opens what it changed in that file, and the branch dropdown's sections fold.
• MCP open_file stays in the project : An MCP client can open only files inside the window's project, and cannot edit the editor's configuration or version-control metadata.

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Features

Keyboard & commands

Command-driven core

Every action is a registered Command, bound to a chord or one M-x search away. There are 700+ commands and no hidden actions.

Keymaps your way

Pick Emacs, CUA, Sublime Text, VS Code, or IntelliJ IDEA. Switch live with no restart, or rebind any command yourself in the built-in keybinding editor (multi-key chords like C-x C-s supported).

Search Everywhere

One picker over commands, files and symbols. Type the name of the thing instead of first choosing which finder it lives in. A >, # or @ prefix narrows it when you already know.

Jump-to popups

Fuzzy-jump to recent files, symbols, open tabs, and tool windows, plus an Emacs find-file-style path finder.

Multiple cursors

Add a caret at the next occurrence, above/below, or on every occurrence at once, or Alt-drag a column/box selection to edit many places at once, VS Code-style.

Keyboard macros

Record a sequence of edits and replay it: F3 to start, F4 to stop, C-x e to replay. Name and save macros, and bind them to keys.

Emacs heritage

The Emacs editing model, not just its keybindings: a kill ring and a mark ring, C-x r rectangles, narrowing, query-replace, C-u prefix arguments, and structural sexp motion. Emacs is the default keymap.

A menu bar, over the same commands

File / Edit / Find / View / Navigate / Code / Run / VCS / Tools / Window / Help menus, built over the command registry, so every item shows its live keybinding. Hide it in one keystroke.

Editing

Snippets

Expand VS Code / TextMate templates with tab stops, mirrors, choices, and variables, all from a prefix + Tab. Ships for 30 languages.

Smart indentation

Per-language auto-indent on Enter (block openers, matching-pair stanzas, closer re-alignment), plus smart backspace that clears a whole indent level in one press.

Auto-close & bracket matching

Typing ([{ or quotes inserts the closer, type-over to skip, wrap a selection, and Backspace clears an empty pair. The bracket beside the caret is highlighted with its match.

Comment toggling

M-; comments or uncomments the line or selection using the language's syntax (//, #, <!-- -->, /* */, --, …).

Spell checking

Red wavy underlines with right-click suggestions, Add-to-Dictionary, and Ignore: full text for prose, comments & strings for code, set per file type. Pure-Java Hunspell; English, Spanish, French.

EditorConfig

Honors a project's .editorconfig: indent style/size, tab width, end-of-line, charset, max line length, and on-save trim / final-newline. On by default.

Undo History

An in-session timeline of document checkpoints (one per typing burst). Jump back to any recent state from a filterable popup (M-g v) or the tool window (M-g u).

Code intelligence

Syntax highlighting

TextMate grammars (via tm4e) for Java, Astro, Python, Rust, Go, Kotlin, C/C++, C#, Ruby, SQL, Markdown, and more.

Language servers (LSP) Beta

Go-to-definition, code actions, rename, signature help, inlay hints, hierarchy, diagnostics and completions via 23 language servers (Java, Astro, TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, C/C++, and more), auto-detected, never bundled.

Code navigation

Go to symbol with no language server, sticky scroll, Peek Definition, preview tabs, and related-file jumps. Move around code without losing your place.

Autocomplete

As-you-type completion: a popup for code (LSP + snippets) and inline ghost text for prose. Trigger with C-M-i / M-/.

Run & debug

Run files & main classes

Run a script, or a Maven/Gradle project's main class, from a gutter ▶. Output and stdin go to the Run console, with clickable stack traces and saved run configurations.

Run configurations

Save how a Java main class, Python or shell script, make target, or named npm script is launched, in a dedicated window, with a before-launch step and a shareable project file.

Debugging (DAP) Beta

Full debugging for Java, Python, and JavaScript: breakpoints, step in/over/out, watches, set-value, run-to-cursor, inline values, and an interactive console.

HTTP client

Run .http / .rest requests from a gutter ▶, with environments, variables, request chaining, and a formatted response view. Built on the JDK HTTP client.

Build tools

Maven, npm, Cargo, Go, and Gradle each get a tasks tool window and a streaming console.

Git & diff

Git integration

Native Git: status-bar branch, gutter change bars vs HEAD, a Commit tool window, merges and rebases with a conflict resolver, branches, remotes, tags, stashes and patches, a paged log with a commit graph, and blame.

GitHub integration

Review and check out pull requests, submit reviews, open a file on GitHub at the caret line, and jump from a failed CI log straight to the offending line. Uses your own gh CLI, so Editora never handles a token.

Diff & merge

A multi-file diff workspace for files, folders, patches, and Git changes, with smart alignment, hunk actions, editable results, and true three-way merge resolution.

Docs & diagrams

Markdown preview

A 3-mode view rendered natively with CommonMark + GFM: task lists, code pills, images, LaTeX math, a heading outline, linting, and export to PDF, HTML, Word, and ODF. Live and theme-matched.

Mermaid diagrams

Render Mermaid diagrams inline in Markdown and in standalone .mmd files, with live linting and export to SVG / PNG / PDF.

Export & print

Export code, a selection, or the Markdown preview to a syntax-highlighted PDF, HTML, MS Word, or ODF, or print with a preview. Light-themed and generated off-thread.

HTML live preview

Click the globe on any HTML file to open it in a detected browser (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge…), served over a loopback web server with live-as-you-type reload. Sibling CSS, JS, and images included.

Typst

A 3-mode preview for .typ files rendered by the Typst CLI, a tinymist language server, Markdown-style editing, and export to PDF / PNG / SVG.

Diagrams as code

A 3-mode preview for Graphviz DOT (.dot/.gv) and PlantUML (.puml) files via the dot / plantuml CLIs, with export to SVG / PNG / PDF.

Smart file previews

Open a data or config file and get a rendered or plain-English preview: JSON/YAML/TOML/XML trees, OpenAPI docs, and decoded systemd, ssh, Dockerfile, fstab, crontab, and GitHub Actions files.

Workspace & files

Project Map navigation

Explore a project as a file tree or a spatial canvas: focused columns, pan and zoom, live filters, and connected code and Personal Notes cards.

Starting a project

Generate a Maven project from an archetype, git init a folder without a terminal, and create any of about fifty file types from the Project tree with the right package declaration already written.

Editor groups

Split the editor into independent groups with their own tabs to see two files at once, nest the splits, drag a tab between them, and get the whole arrangement back on the next launch.

Bookmarks & notes

Bookmarks and Markdown Personal Notes for lines, ranges, files, and folders, stored outside source and navigable across a project.

Find in files

Project-wide search and replace with a results panel, plus AceJump to leap the caret to any visible spot by typing a label.

File templates

New File From Template: single- or multi-file scaffolds that ask for their variables (author, date, file name, …).

Read-only / View mode

Toggle a buffer read-only to browse without editing; pager-style Space/Backspace paging and a Word-style View Mode banner.

Remote files (SFTP) Beta

Browse, edit, search, and save files on a remote host over SSH/SFTP. The project tree, search, bookmarks, and notes all work over the wire.

Local History

Snapshots of your files over time, taken on save, auto-save, and before an external reload, so you can diff or restore an earlier version with no Git required.

TODO highlighting

Configurable regex patterns (TODO, FIXME, and your own) are highlighted in the editor and collected in a TODO tool window, with scrollbar and minimap stripes.

Server log viewer

Open a log file for severity highlighting, a tail -f Follow button that survives rotation, open-at-the-tail for huge logs, and live level + regex filtering.

CSV & TSV support

Rainbow per-column coloring, a field readout, and an editable CSV grid with sort/filter, print, and export to PDF/Excel/ODF, plus align/shrink and Markdown-table interop.

Crash recovery

Unsaved edits, including untitled buffers, are kept while you work and offered back on the next launch if Editora did not close normally. Restoring never writes to your files.

Customization & extensibility

AI assistance Beta

One-shot AI actions (explain, rewrite, commit message, inline completion) and an embedded coding agent over ACP. Anthropic, Codex, or a local model. Off by default.

Themes & fonts

Editora Light and Editora Dark, plus 26 more (Primer, Nord, Cupertino, Dracula and the community set). Five bundled monospace fonts, no install needed, and you can drop in a theme of your own.

Plugins

Extend the editor with commands, tool windows, and integrations. Install from a built-in registry of 19 plugins, or write your own (Java or a simple manifest).

Zen mode

Hides every bar, the line numbers, and the minimap, leaving only the text. Everything you have switched on keeps running.

Expert mode

A lighter focus mode than Zen: the toolbar, tabs, breadcrumb, and tool stripes go, while line numbers, the minimap, the status bar, and the menu bar stay.

Simple UI mode

One toggle strips the editor to the essentials, hiding the extra toolbar groups, tool-window stripe, breadcrumb, gutter, and minimap for a calm, minimal surface.

Full IDE

The default layout: menu bar, toolbar, tabs, tool windows, gutter, minimap, and status bar, with every feature available.

Localized UI

The whole interface is translated into English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German, selectable in Settings → Appearance.

MCP server Beta

Embed a Model Context Protocol server in the running editor so an LLM agent (Claude Code, …) can observe live state and drive the command registry. Loopback-only, token-authed, off by default.

External tools

Define your own CLI commands and run them on the current file or buffer, with $Name$ macros, stdin piping, and output to a console or back into the text.

Doctor

A health screen for every external tool Editora can use: what was found, which version, where it lives, what's only half-configured, and what's missing, with an Install… button where Editora can fetch it for you.

Settings sync Beta

Keeps your snippets, abbreviations, templates and personal dictionary the same on every computer, through a private Git repository you own. Off by default.

Works with your stack

Syntax highlighting for dozens of languages, and completion, go-to-definition, and diagnostics from 23 language servers. Live previews cover the formats you read most.

Your keymap, your keys

Bring the muscle memory you already have. Pick a keymap and every shortcut follows, or rebind any command to whatever you like.

Make it yours

Ships with 25+ editor themes (and you can add your own). Try a few here and the whole site recolors to match.

Built for speed

Editora keeps the UI thread free. Work happens incrementally, off the UI thread, and only on what is visible.

Download

Native installers for macOS, Windows, and Linux are attached to each release, along with self-contained runnable jars for Windows and Linux.

Native installer (bundles a Java runtime, nothing else to install), or a self-contained java -jar on JDK 25.

Installers are currently unsigned. On macOS 15 and later, the first launch is blocked: open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. On Windows, if SmartScreen appears, choose More info → Run anyway.

Build & run from source

Requires JDK 25+. A Maven wrapper is bundled, so no local Maven install is needed.

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/adriandeleon/Editora.git
cd Editora

# Run the app
./mvnw javafx:run

# Build a native installer (DMG / MSI / DEB)
./mvnw clean -Pdist package

# Build a self-contained runnable jar
./mvnw -Pfatjar package
java -jar target/Editora-*.jar

Built in the open with the help of AI coding tools. Every change lands as a reviewed, tested commit on GitHub.