pad-app

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Pad is an easy to use terminal code editor for those of us who aren't into vim.

Features

Runs in the terminal, works great with ghostty
Responsive, resize the window and it still looks good
Text editor with code highlighting for the current open file
If not pointed at a file, opens the current directory, default open file is any README.md that may exist
Autoclosing of parenthesis, curly braces, brackets, and quotes
VS Code inspired keyboard shortcuts for fast navigation and editing:
- ctrl+c: copy text
- ctrl+v: paste text
- ctrl+z: undo
- ctrl+s: save current file
- ctrl+f: search in current file
- ctrl+g: go to line
- ctrl+b: file browser
- ctrl+o: file search
- ctrl+shift+f: Fast file content search

uv tool install pad-app

Currently Pad is untested with any other installation method. If it works for your installation method, let me know and I'll add it to this section.

Once installed, point it at a file:

pad myproject/README.md

Or a directory:

pad myproject/

For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.

Source distribution for pad-app 0.5.2
File	Size	Uploaded
pad_app-0.5.2.tar.gz	10.7 kB	Feb 9, 2026	Details

Table of built distributions (wheels) for pad-app 0.5.2
File	Interpreter	ABI	Platform	Reset
pad_app-0.5.2-py3-none-any.whl 11.7 kB Feb 9, 2026	Python 3	none	any	Details

Total release size: 22.4 kB

Download URL	pad_app-0.5.2.tar.gz
Size	10.7 kB
Tags	Source
SHA-256 checksum How to use checksums	`b376cb0e47299ce7159293dfb0393bf65c82a71fcc2c02d5f03608d51ce3ed25`
BLAKE2b-256 checksum How to use checksums	`5f80a576f0928c84b1bb2a8614888a5fe997bc50207befa0753036cf0ef03667`
Upload date	Feb 9, 2026
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? What is trusted publishing?	No
Uploaded via	`uv/0.9.11 {"installer":{"name":"uv","version":"0.9.11"},"python":null,"implementation":{"name":null,"version":null},"distro":{"name":"macOS","version":null,"id":null,"libc":null},"system":{"name":null,"release":null},"cpu":null,"openssl_version":null,"setuptools_version":null,"rustc_version":null,"ci":null}`

Download URL	pad_app-0.5.2-py3-none-any.whl
Size	11.7 kB
Tags	Python 3
SHA-256 checksum How to use checksums	`19e5fd021b4c1fd84f7d35a9154aafd34d11e81617217f085b297f57b247ee8b`
BLAKE2b-256 checksum How to use checksums	`eaf9ad5af47c6b5337b056e8a291e2f99990a4a0a54fe57efeedd5b099a3ce30`
Upload date	Feb 9, 2026
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? What is trusted publishing?	No
Uploaded via	`uv/0.9.11 {"installer":{"name":"uv","version":"0.9.11"},"python":null,"implementation":{"name":null,"version":null},"distro":{"name":"macOS","version":null,"id":null,"libc":null},"system":{"name":null,"release":null},"cpu":null,"openssl_version":null,"setuptools_version":null,"rustc_version":null,"ci":null}`