A code editor for the terminal. File tree, tabs, search, git marks and syntax highlighting for 30+ languages — keyboard and mouse.

druk is one self-contained executable. Nothing else to install — no Node, no Bun.

curl -fsSL https://druk.letstri.dev/install | bash

Or through a package manager:

npm install -g druk

bun add -g druk

macOS (arm64, x64), Linux (arm64, x64) and Windows (x64). Binaries are also on the releases page.

To upgrade later, whichever way you installed:

druk update

It works out how this copy was installed — Homebrew, the install script, or a global npm/pnpm/yarn/bun package — and runs that upgrade, printing the command first.

druk                  # the current directory
druk ./my-app         # a directory
druk src/main.ts      # a single file
druk src/main.ts:42   # …opened at line 42

npx druk and bunx druk work without installing anything.

Given a file, druk opens it with the sidebar hidden — Ctrl+B brings the tree back, and the folder around the file is still the project for search and git.

The window is a file tree on the left, tabs along the top, the editor, and a status bar with the branch, unsaved state and cursor position.

• Tab moves from the tree to the editor, Esc moves back.
• In the tree: ↑ ↓ to move, → ← to open and close folders, Enter to open a file.
• Opening a file from the tree previews it: the tab is italic and the next file you open takes its place. Double-click it, or start editing, and the tab stays for good.
• Ctrl+S saves. Closing a tab with unsaved edits asks first.
• F1 (or Ctrl+Shift+P where the terminal can send it) opens the command palette — every feature is in there, and typing filters it, so you never have to remember a shortcut. F1 → Keyboard shortcuts shows them all.
• Ctrl+P opens any file in the project (fuzzy), as in VS Code.
• Ctrl+K peeks: a strip over the status bar listing every key that works right now, gone again on the next keypress.

In the tree: a new file, A new folder, r rename, d delete, x cut, c copy, p paste here, Shift+↑/↓ select several rows, [ / ] resize the sidebar.

Two things worth knowing: Ctrl+C copies when text is selected and quits when nothing is, so it never throws away unsaved work. And most terminals cannot tell Ctrl+Shift apart from plain Ctrl, so a second modifier is spelled Ctrl+Opt — terminals with the kitty keyboard protocol take Ctrl+Shift too (Ctrl+Shift+P opens the palette there, as in VS Code).

druk names the key for your OS: Opt (Option, ⌥) on macOS, Alt everywhere else. Every shortcut works in a stock terminal — nothing to configure. The line commands are also in the palette (F1). Some terminals (macOS Terminal.app among them) cannot send Ctrl+/ at all — that is why Toggle comment also answers to Ctrl+L.

Ctrl+F searches the open file, Ctrl+R the project (Ctrl+Opt+F too — that is the one to use in vim mode, where Ctrl+R is redo). Whatever you had selected is already in the box.

Results are grouped by file, each row showing the line number and the line with the hit picked out, and the lines around the selected match are previewed underneath. Tab folds the file you are on, so one file with forty hits stops burying the rest.

In file search, Tab opens the replace field instead: Enter replaces the selected match, Ctrl+A replaces every match in the file.

Ctrl+C, Ctrl+W and Ctrl+R toggle case-sensitive, whole-word and regex matching while the search is open; the active ones are shown beside the match count.

x picks a file or folder up and p drops it in the folder you are on — paste onto a file and it lands beside it, so you never have to aim exactly. c copies instead, and keeps the clipboard, so the same thing can go into several folders. Nothing is overwritten: a taken name gets a copy suffix (app copy.ts), which is also how you duplicate in place.

Open tabs, unsaved edits and expanded folders all follow whatever you move or rename.

Deleting, moving or copying a lot at once runs in the background: the status bar counts what is done and the editor stays usable, instead of freezing until a node_modules is gone.

Changed lines are marked in the gutter and again beside the scrollbar, where the whole file's changes are visible at once — a mark there is somewhere to scroll to. Files in the tree carry M A U D marks, and the status bar shows the branch and how far it is from upstream — ⎇ main ↑2 ↓1 ~3 is two commits to push, one to pull, three changed files. Work you do in another terminal shows up without a restart.

Ctrl+Opt+G swaps the sidebar for a small source-control panel, as in VS Code: the changed files under the branch name. ↑↓ walks the changes and the diff for the one under the cursor opens beside the panel — that is the way to read a diff, and the way to move between them. Tab steps into the page (Tab again lays it out side by side, Esc closes it), c commits (pick the files, type the message), p pushes, b switches branch, and Esc puts the file tree back. Git → Diff current file in the palette opens the panel on the file you are editing; commit, pull, fetch, stash, undo-commit and the branch commands live beside it.

Open the settings page from the palette (F1 → Settings): one row per option, ←→ steps the value and Enter opens a filterable list of every value — the way to reach one of 26 themes without pressing an arrow 26 times. Every change applies immediately and persists. Or edit ~/.config/druk/config.json directly — a bad value falls back to the default instead of breaking startup.

druk also remembers each project's open tabs, active file and expanded folders, and restores them the next time you open that directory.