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mbaynton/launch-cli-editor
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Launch the user's preferred terminal editor to input or update large strings

1.0.0(9y ago)199MITPHP

Since Jul 25Pushed 9y agoCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/mbaynton/launch-cli-editor)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/mbaynton/launch-cli-editor)[ Docs](https://github.com/mbaynton/launch-cli-editor)[ RSS](/packages/mbaynton-launch-cli-editor/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago

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###  Health Score

28

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LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3575d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b476fed6591946a9eeb4af8c9f9870051123e62da0920d2ff280d9600407717a?d=identicon)[mbaynton](/maintainers/mbaynton)

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Top Contributors

[![mbaynton](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3026002?v=4)](https://github.com/mbaynton "mbaynton (5 commits)")

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Tags

cliconsoleterminaleditortext-editor

###  Code Quality

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