# Install fresh-editor with Homebrew, Nix, zypper, winget, scoop
Text editor for your terminal: easy, powerful and fast. Version 0.4.6 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-30. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#fresh-editor.
## Install
```sh
sudo av install brew:fresh-editor
```
Additional install commands:
### macOS
- Homebrew (100%):
```sh
brew install fresh-editor
```
Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata
### Linux
- Nix (92%):
```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#fresh-editor
```
Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fr/fresh-editor/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- zypper (92%):
```sh
sudo zypper install fresh-editor
```
Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fresh-editor from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst
### Windows
- winget (92%):
```sh
winget install --id sinelaw.fresh-editor -e
```
Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: sinelaw.fresh-editor from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
- Scoop (92%):
```sh
scoop install main/fresh
```
Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/fresh.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
## Package facts
- **Package key:** brew:fresh-editor
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.4.6
- **Source summary:** Text editor for your terminal: easy, powerful and fast
- **Homepage:**
- **Repository:**
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-30T20:57:44Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00
## Executables
- fresh (alias)
## Install behavior
- Bottle: not available
## Freshness
- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.4.6
## Project history and usage
Fresh is a terminal text editor that presents familiar graphical-editor conventions inside a terminal UI. Its official README describes zero-configuration startup, standard keybindings, mouse support, menus, a command palette, language-server features, multi-cursor editing, themes, plugins, and large-file handling.
### Project history
Fresh is developed as a Rust application under the `sinelaw/fresh` repository and is documented through an official website and user guide. Official release metadata visible during research showed a fast-moving 0.x line in 2026, including the 0.3 series in May 2026 and 0.4 releases in June 2026.
### Adoption history
The README presents Fresh as broadly packaged rather than source-only. It documents installation through Homebrew, winget, Arch AUR packages, Debian and Ubuntu `.deb` packages, Fedora and RHEL `.rpm` packages, openSUSE, FreeBSD ports/pkg, Gentoo GURU, AppImage, Flatpak, npm, cargo-binstall, crates.io, Nix flakes, prebuilt binaries, and source builds.
That distribution list suggests the project is aimed at users who want a modern editor binary available from normal operating-system and language package channels, not only Rust developers.
### How it is used
The main command is `fresh`, used to open files from the terminal. Typical use is interactive editing with familiar shortcuts, command-palette navigation, LSP features, search and replace, file explorer workflows, split panes, integrated terminal support, themes, and TypeScript plugins.
### Why package nerds care
Fresh is package-nerd interesting because it is a contemporary terminal editor that deliberately targets many package channels at once. It is a useful specimen of how a Rust CLI application can be shipped through native package managers, language registries, self-contained Linux formats, and prebuilt release artifacts while keeping the runtime surface to a single `fresh` command.
### Timeline
- 2026-05: Official releases include Fresh 0.3.x builds.
- 2026-06: Official releases include Fresh 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2.
- 2026: The README documents wide package availability across Homebrew, winget, AUR, deb/rpm, AppImage, Flatpak, npm, crates.io, Nix, FreeBSD, and Gentoo.
### Related projects
- Fresh is positioned against familiar graphical editor workflows from editors such as VS Code and Sublime Text, while remaining a terminal-first application.
- Its related packaging surfaces include crates.io, npm, Homebrew, winget, Nix flakes, AppImage, Flatpak, and Linux distribution package formats.
### Sources
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## Security Notes
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for fresh-editor. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
## Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
## Configuration files
- Unix: ~/.config/fresh/config.json, .fresh/config.json, .fresh/session.json
- Windows: %APPDATA%\fresh\config.json, .fresh\config.json, .fresh\session.json
## Other Package-Manager Records
- Nix - fresh-editor: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fr/fresh-editor/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- zypper - fresh-editor - 0.4.5-1.1: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fresh-editor from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A terminal text editor you can just use | https://getfresh.dev/
- winget - sinelaw.fresh-editor: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: sinelaw.fresh-editor from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
- Scoop - main/fresh: installed executable or alias match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/fresh.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
## Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/fresh-editor.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/fresh-editor.yml)
## Sources
- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph