Fast and extensible code editor written in rust

Is kashsuks/Pinel beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to kashsuks/Pinel to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
10
Forks
1
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
30
Avg merge
3d 9h
Merged PRs (30d)
4
Dominant language
Rust
License
GPL-3.0
Last GitHub push
Oct 30, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 18, 2026
Contributing guide
Contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
No beginner labels indexed

How to contribute to kashsuks/Pinel

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's GPL-3.0 license.
  3. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • [Bug] The Catppuccin Mocha theme doesn't work
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#122 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] High CPU use while idle
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#121 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] Workspace search shows stale results
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#120 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] UI freezes on large folders
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#119 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] Session restore scrambles tab order
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#118 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] Ctrl+W in the terminal closes an editor tab
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#117 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] LSP breaks on paths with spaces
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#116 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] The LSP root is `/` when launched from the Dock
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 54/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#115 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] The language server restarts on every tab switch
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#114 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] `pinel connect` overwrites the session
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#113 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] Settings can get corrupted
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#112 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] Rename silently overwrites an existing file
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#111 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] A save marks the wrong tab as saved
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#110 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] Replace All loses undo history and isn't saved
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#109 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] Autosave skips tabs you switch away from
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#108 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] No unsaved-changes prompt on close
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#107 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] Binary files get overwritten with "Could not read file"
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#106 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] The `unstable-comet` feature doesn't build
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 85/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#105 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] Cmd+W crashes after deleting a file from the tree
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#104 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] LSP completion panics after a non-ASCII character
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#103 · 1 comment ·

  • [Bug] Find panics on non-ASCII text
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#102 · 1 comment ·

  • [Feature] Bring your own AI model
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#88 ·

  • Rework Customizable Features
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#79 ·

  • allow for custom keybind mapping
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    kashsuks/Pinel#53 ·

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