moled - the standard molecular editor

By 1969, the user interface for editing text had already been perfected in ed.1

Ed is the standard text editor.

Moled is the standard molecular editor.

We do bow to modern times in that we use graphics to display the molecules; this requires a terminal supporting the graphics protocol, such as kitty, Ghostty, or iTerm2.

Sample session:

Requirements

• Python (tested with 3.11)
• RDKit (tested with 2025.09.6)
• molcat