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Nimki

A lightweight terminal text editor with file tree, syntax highlighting, and mouse support.

  • Completely free
  • Windows
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Nimki is a text editor, available on Windows.

Features described in its Winget manifest: syntax highlighting and command-line use.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “A lightweight terminal text editor with file tree, syntax highlighting, and mouse support.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “A lightweight terminal text editor with file tree, syntax highlighting, and mouse support.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “Nimki is a fast, lightweight terminal-based text editor with syntax highlighting, an interactive file tree explorer, smooth mouse wheel scrolling, mouse click-to-snap, and cross-platform clipboard support.” — Winget, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Nimki is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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