Tilde text editor
Shares rank 47 of 56 text editors by recommenders
People recommend Tilde as a terminal text editor that works quite well, though one critic says it can be a major downgrade depending on what you are writing.
People recommend Tilde as a terminal text editor that works quite well, though one critic says it can be a major downgrade depending on what you are writing.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 71%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Works quite well for people
“I've found https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde to work quite well”
Comment from 4 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust” Cited as a successful example
“successful examples like Tilde or FriendCamp reinforce my point”
Comment from 18 Oct 2026 in “We don't want decentralized systems, we want small ones” Lesser-known but recommended
“Less known, there is also tilde”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “Txt: A fast, keyboard-driven terminal text editor for engineers”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Can be a downgrade for some writing
“depending on what you're writing, Tilde might be a massive downgrade”
Comment from 8 Nov 2025 in “WriterdeckOS” Other editors seen as better
“Some of these options would have been way cooler than Tilde”
Comment from 8 Nov 2025 in “WriterdeckOS”
Other text editors people recommend
The four most recommended other text editors, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zed | 700 | 430 | 62% | 13 | 6 mo57 owners | — |
| GNU Emacs | 648 | 207 | 76% | 13 | 20 yrs158 owners | Approved |
| Vim | 513 | 127 | 80% | 13 | 20 yrs55 owners | Approved |
| Visual Studio Code | 485 | 547 | 47% | 12 | 2 yrs13 owners | — |
| Tilde text editorThis page | 5 | 2 | 71% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
5 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“successful examples like Tilde or FriendCamp reinforce my point”
“Less known, there is also tilde”
“I've found https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde to work quite well”
“depending on what you're writing, Tilde might be a massive downgrade”
“Some of these options would have been way cooler than Tilde”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.