v0.2.3 · Codex review workflow

The editor that respects
your muscle memory

Red is a modern modal editor for people who think in Vim. Fast editing, language intelligence, themes, and embedded plugins—ready without a setup ritual.

Install Red Download a release

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -fsSL https://rededitor.app/install.sh | sh

irm https://rededitor.app/install.ps1 | iex

brew install codersauce/tap/red

Red editing Rust with inline type hints in a light theme

Red editing Rust with inline type hints in a dark theme

Everything you need

Batteries included

Capable defaults in one Rust binary. Extend Red when you want to, not because you have to.

LSP

Language servers

Completion, go-to-definition, rename, diagnostics, and inlay hints from the language servers already on your PATH.

TREE-SITTER

Syntax-aware editing

Bundled grammars bring structural highlighting and text objects to the languages you use every day.

THEMES

Theme gallery

Browse and preview the bundled themes live. No plugin manager and no restart required.

HUSK

Embedded plugins

Red's own typed scripting language powers built-in tools while keeping the default experience self-contained.

Stay on the keyboard

Everything is a keystroke away

Find files, search the project, discover commands, switch themes, and ask the language server without losing your place.

Red fuzzy file finder with a live file preview — Fuzzy-find project files and preview them before opening.

Codex integration

Agent edits you can actually trust

Ask Codex without leaving your buffer. Suggested writes arrive as isolated proposals, ready for you to inspect before anything reaches your files.

Space AAsk with editor context

:AgentReviewReview pending proposals

Read the agent workflow docs

Asking the Codex agent a question from inside Red

Red welcome screen with command shortcuts

Familiar from the first file

Feels like home on day one

Red follows Vim's modal grammar across the editing operations it supports, then adds discoverable project, language, Git, theme, and agent tools.

Space ?discover commands

Ctrl-pfind a file

Space /search the project

Space Aask the agent

:AgentReviewreview proposals

Space tbrowse themes

View the compatibility matrix

Ready when you are

Up and running in a minute

Red ships as a self-contained binary for macOS, Linux, and Windows. Supported desktop systems are detected automatically, and you can choose another method at any time.