User Guide

Everything you need to use the Modular Text Editor day to day.

• Getting started — the interface at a glance.
• Features
  • Syntax colouring — language-aware colours.
  • Code folding — collapse and expand regions.
  • Minimap — a bird's-eye view of the whole file.
  • View aids — whitespace, indent guides, Zen mode.
  • Command palette — run any command by typing.
  • Shortcut mapper — rebind any keyboard shortcut.
  • Multi-caret editing — edit in many places at once.
  • Auto-pair & indentation — brackets, quotes and indent that keep up with you.
  • Auto-completion — keyword, buffer-word, snippet and LSP suggestions as you type.
  • Smart highlight — select a word, see every occurrence.
  • Matching tag / block — see the enclosing tag or block pair.
  • Split view — edit several documents side by side.
  • Saved layout — window, docks and panels restored across sessions.
  • Compare / Diff — see what changed between two files.
  • Command line & git difftool — open files, lines and diffs from a shell.
  • File-change watching — stay in sync with disk, or follow a growing file.
  • File backup on save — keep the previous version when overwriting.
  • Document statistics — live counts and reading time.
  • EditorConfig — apply a project's .editorconfig conventions automatically.
  • Logging & diagnostics — log files and debug flags.
  • AI assistant — drive your own AI CLI agent, with reviewable edits.
• Preferences — configure the editor and its plugins.
• Licensing — evaluation, free and paid modes explained.

Many capabilities are delivered as plugins — see the Plugins section for those.