Hackerman

Hackerman Text is built on a simple principle: make typing feel instant, then stay out of your way.

Non-essential features are on-demand by default. There are no distracting squiggles.

Most things behave as you'd expect, no learning curve. Focus on a single file, or open multiple files into a single view. Every view stays in sync and always shows the latest version of your files.

Your configuration lives in plain text, so it can be version-controlled, shared across machines, or stored in the cloud.

Local-first AI. Zero-latency typing. No telemetry, no sign in.

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Simple and fast

Built-in, native-level lexers. A minimal always-visible UI keeps the focus on code.

The goal is near-zero typing latency, even in huge files, in any language. Anything that measurably slows this down is either removed or made opt-in.

Inline AI chat

Edit and organize chat conversations as plain text, or Markdown. Chats can be saved to disk, version controlled, and opened later in any editor.

Local model support via Ollama, plus out-of-the-box integration with OpenAI and Mistral, with more providers planned over time.

Intuitive key bindings

Platform-default shortcuts. No learning curve. Everything is a function and bindable.

delete                  Backspace
...
line_up                 Up, Control + P
line_down               Down, Control + N
...
line_start              Command + Left, Control + A
line_end                Command + Right, Control + E

Custom bindable functions

Write your own editor commands in a small, well-defined subset of Python.

Functions hot-reload from your scripts file, show up in the function explorer, and can be bound to any key, so your custom workflows feel like built-in features.

Context-aware autocomplete

Autocomplete stays fast by indexing the current file on load and updating as you type.

Suggestions come only from your document and are ranked so the most likely match appears first.

Project-wide search

Filter the file explorer instantly to jump to what you need (e.g. c/, .py).

For deeper searches, scan every file for a pattern and export the results as plain text to save, share, or work from.

Editor roadmap

Submit feature request

// done

Core editor features (multi-cursor, multiple selections)

Everything as text files

Multiple views, single document

Create your own themes

Local LLMs

Copilot-like code completion

Project-wide search

Keybind custom functions

Emacs-like org mode for notes

Zero-latency typing (<10ms)

Context-aware autocomplete

Code scroller (minimap)

// almost ready...

Bring your own lexer

Support for mix-and-match LLMs (local and hosted)

Inline shell, eval, and AI chat

Sublime-like performance

// todo

Remote development (SSH)

Virtual buffers for very large files (10M+ lines)

Sublime-like performance (on very large files)

Programming language support

Minimal language support by design. The built-in lexers are hand-tuned for speed and precise syntax highlighting, with language-specific code folding.

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Assembly

Bash

C++

CSS

Cython

Dart

Fortran

Haskell

HTML

JavaScript

Kotlin

LaTeX

Lisp

Lua

Makefile

Markdown

Mojo

Nim

OCaml

Odin

Pascal

Perl

PHP

PowerShell

Prolog

Python

Ruby

Rust

Scala

Swift

TypeScript

Verilog

Zig

Jai

Turn your late-night ideas into morning commits.

Hackerman Text, the AI-native code editor