Ganpi

Overview

Why Ganpi?

Keyboard-first, deeply customizable plain-text editor for macOS.

Ganpi is designed around reconfigurable editing behavior. Key bindings are not just assignable—they are composable. You can bind arbitrary keystroke sequences to built-in actions, string insertion, file insertion, tag insertion, or external script execution, and combine them into a single workflow. The same action sequences can also be assigned to custom menu items with user-defined names and shortcuts.

Ganpi also provides several distinctive editing features:

• Grid Jump, which moves the caret anywhere visible on screen with two keystrokes.
• Yank Pop, which lets you cycle backward through clipboard history.
• Bracket Pair Selection, which repeatedly selects the inside or outside of matching brackets.
• ExCommand, which enables direct search, replace, and line extraction without opening the standard search panel.

Alongside these, Ganpi includes the core capabilities expected of a modern plain-text editor: automatic detection of text encoding, line endings, and document type; unlimited undo/redo; syntax coloring and outline menus for supported languages; and word completion.

Supported macOS: macOS 14 or later (Sonoma or later)

Ganpi is a macOS-only application written in Swift. It is structured as a Cocoa document-based application, but uses custom TextView and TextStorage components designed specifically for text editing.

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