Download ted

Free and open source. Pick your system below. Every package is on the latest GitHub release, with its SHA-256 checksum in SHA256SUMS.

Windows

Windows 10 and 11, 64 bit. The installer is for your user only and needs no administrator rights. It adds ted to the Start menu, puts ted on your PATH and adds Open with ted to the Explorer menu of files and folders. The portable zip needs no installer at all.
Download the installer File ted-…-windows-x86_64-setup.exe Download the portable zip File ted-…-windows-x86_64-portable.zip
macOS

Apple silicon (M1 and later). Open the disk image and drag ted to Applications. ted then shows in the Open With menu of text files and folders.
Download the disk image File ted-…-macos-arm64.dmg
Linux

x86_64. A .deb, an .rpm, an Arch package, an AppImage and a tarball. The packages install ted in /usr/bin with its desktop entry and icons.
Download a package Files .deb, .rpm, .pkg.tar.zst, .AppImage, .tar.gz

Install

From the command line

Download the package of the latest release, then install it with your package manager.

$ sudo apt install ./ted_*_amd64.deb

$ sudo dnf install ./ted-*.x86_64.rpm

$ sudo pacman -U ./ted-*-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

A Mac app cannot put itself on the PATH. To run ted from a terminal, link it once:

$ sudo ln -sf /Applications/ted.app/Contents/MacOS/ted /usr/local/bin/ted

First launch

ted is not code signed yet, so your system asks once before opening it.

If macOS says it cannot verify the developer, open System Settings, Privacy and Security, and choose Open Anyway. Or run this once:

$ xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/ted.app

If SmartScreen shows Windows protected your PC, choose More info and then Run anyway.

ted builds with the stable Rust toolchain. Clone the repository and run make release. The README lists the system libraries Linux needs.