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Hello HN community! I'm excited to introduce Unied – a compact and efficient terminal text editor, developed in C using the Ncurses library. My goal was to create a tool that combines familiar simplicity with powerful features rarely found in CLI editors. What makes Unied special? * Intelligent Syntax Highlighting: Unied automatically detects if you're working with code (C, Python, JS, etc.) or plain text, and applies heuristic highlighting for comments, strings, numbers, operators, and keywords. No manual configurations – just start coding. * Intuitive Command System ("Command Puzzle…

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