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# Flow Control: a programmer's text editor
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# Flow Control: a programmer's text editor
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This is my Zig text editor. It is under active development, but usually stable
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This is my Zig text editor. It is under active development, but very stable
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and is my daily driver for most things coding related.
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and is my daily driver for almost everything.
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[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwPg3sIxMGw)
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[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwPg3sIxMGw)
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# Features
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- **Lightning Fast** TUI with ≤6ms frame times, **low latency** input handling
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and smooth **animated scrolling**
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- Intuitive UI with **tabs**, **scrollbars** and **palettes** with full
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**mouse** support for all UI elements
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- Support for more than **70 programming languages**, **zero
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configuration** needed, via **tree-sitter** powered syntax highlighting
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- **Language Server Protocol** pre configured support for most language servers
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- Powerful **multi-cursor** editing and integrated **clipboard history**
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- Powerful configurable keybinding system that supports **modal** and
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**non-modal** editing styles
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- Multiple pre-configured **keybinding modes**
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- Flow Control - GUI IDE style bindings (similar to vscode)
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- Emacs
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- Vim
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- Helix
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- User created
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- Hybrid rope/piece-table buffer system, edit **very large files** with
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**thousands of cursors**
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- Infinite **undo** (at least until you run out of ram)
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- Full **unicode** support, including support for the kitty text sizing protocol
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- Plenty of **themes** included and support for vscode themes via the flow-themes project
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- Runs on **Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, Windows and Android** (under termux) with
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easy **cross-compilation** to all supported targets
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# Requirements
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# Requirements
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- A modern terminal with 24bit color and, ideally, kitty keyboard protocol support. Kitty,
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Foot and Ghostty are the only recommended terminals at this time. Most other terminals
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- A modern terminal with **24bit color** and, ideally, **kitty keyboard
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will work, but with reduced functionality.
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protocol** support. **Kitty**, **Foot** and **Ghostty** are the recommended
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- NerdFont support. Either via terminal font fallback or a patched font.
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terminals at this time. **Zellij** also works well. Most other terminals will
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- Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android (Termux) or FreeBSD.
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work, but likely with reduced functionality.
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- A UTF-8 locale
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- **NerdFont** support. Either via terminal font fallback or a patched font.
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- A **UTF-8** locale
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# Roadmap
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See our [devlog](/devlog/2025) for on-going updates from the development team.
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## In Development
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- LSP completion support
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- Persistent undo/redo
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- File watcher integration
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## Future
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- Collaborative editing
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- Plugin system
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- Multi-terminal sessions
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# Download / Install
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# Download / Install
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Binary release builds are found here: [neurocyte/flow/releases](https://github.com/neurocyte/flow/releases/latest)
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There is an [installation guide](https://flow-control.dev/installation) on the
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main website, and source, release and nightly build binary
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Fetch and install the latest release to `/usr/local/bin` with the installation helper script:
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[downloads](https://flow-control.dev/downloads).
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```shell
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curl -fsSL https://flow-control.dev/install | sh
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```
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Nightly binary builds are found here: [neurocyte/flow-nightly/releases](https://github.com/neurocyte/flow-nightly/releases/latest)
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Install latest nightly build and (optionally) specify the installation destination:
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```shell
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curl -fsSL https://flow-control.dev/install | sh -s -- --nightly --dest ~/.local/bin
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```
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See all avalable options for the installer script:
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```shell
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curl -fsSL https://flow-control.dev/install | sh -s -- --help
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```
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Or check your favorite local system package repository.
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Or check your favorite local system package repository.
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[](https://repology.org/project/flow-control/versions)
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[](https://repology.org/project/flow-control/versions)
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# Building
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# Building
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Make sure your system meets the requirements listed above.
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Make sure your system meets the requirements listed above.
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Flow builds with zig 0.15.1 at this time. Build with:
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Flow builds with zig 0.15.2 at this time. Build with:
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```shell
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```shell
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zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe
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zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe
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```
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```
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Zig will by default build a binary optimized for your specific CPU. If you get illegal instruction errors add `-Dcpu=baseline` to the build command to produce a binary with generic CPU support.
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Zig will by default build a binary optimized for your specific CPU. If you get
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illegal instruction errors add `-Dcpu=baseline` to the build command to produce
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a binary with generic CPU support.
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Thanks to Zig you may also cross-compile from any host to pretty much any
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Thanks to Zig you may also cross-compile from any host to pretty much any
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When cross-compiling zig will build a binary with generic CPU support.
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When cross-compiling zig will build a binary with generic CPU support.
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[](https://deepwiki.com/neurocyte/flow)
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The output binary is:
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```
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zig-out/bin/flow
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```
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It is statically built (by default) and contains all the required tree-sitter parsers
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and queries. No additional runtime files are required.
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# Running Flow Control
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# Running Flow Control
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The binary is:
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The Flow Control binary is called `flow`.
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```shell
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zig-out/bin/flow
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```
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Place it in your path for convenient access:
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Place it in your path for convenient access:
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zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe --prefix ~/.local
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```
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Flow Control is a single statically linked binary. No further runtime files are required.
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Flow Control is a single statically linked binary. No further runtime files are
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You may install it on another system by simply copying the binary.
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required. You may install it on another system by simply copying the binary.
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```shell
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```shell
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scp zig-out/bin/flow root@otherhost:/usr/local/bin
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scp zig-out/bin/flow root@otherhost:/usr/local/bin
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See `flow --help` for the full list of command line options.
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See `flow --help` for the full list of command line options.
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# Documentation
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## User manual
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A basic user manual is available inside flow. You can open it with the
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`Open help` command (F1).
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It is also available in the website [documentation]{https://flow-control.dev/docs/}
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## Development Resources
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[flow-control.dev/docs](https://flow-control.dev/docs/).
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There is also an AI generated developer guide at
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Accuracy may vary. Check details against the referenced source code.
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# Configuration
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# Configuration
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Configuration is mostly dynamically maintained with various commands in the UI.
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Configuration is mostly dynamically maintained with various commands in the UI.
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It is stored under the standard user configuration path. Usually `~/.config/flow`
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It is stored under the standard user configuration path. Usually
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There are commands to open the various configuration files, so you don't have to
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manually find them. Look for commands starting with `Edit` in the command palette.
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manually find them. Look for commands starting with `Edit` in the command
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File types may be configured with the `Edit file type configuration` command. You
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File types may be configured with the `Edit file type configuration` command.
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directory. Have a look at an existing file type to see what options are available.
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`file_type` directory. Have a look at an existing file type to see what options
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Logs, traces and per-project most recently used file lists are stored in the
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# Key bindings and commands
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# Features
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- fast TUI interface. no user interaction should take longer than one frame (6ms) (even debug builds)
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- tree sitter based syntax highlighting
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- linting (diagnostics) and code navigation (goto definition) via language server
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- multi cursor editing support
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- first class mouse support (yes, even with a scrollbar that actually works properly!) (Windows included)
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- vim compatible keybindings (the standard vimtutor bindings, more on request)
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- user configurable keybindings
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- excellent unicode support including 2027 mode
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- hybrid rope/piece-table buffer for fast loading, saving and editing with hundreds of cursors
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- theme support (compatible with vscode themes via the flow-themes project)
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- infinite undo/redo (at least until you run out of ram)
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- command palette
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- stuff I've forgotten to mention...
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# Features in progress (aka, the road to 1.0)
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- completion UI/LSP support for completion
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# Features planned for the future
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# Community
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# Community
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Join our [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/4wvteUPphx) server or use the discussions section here on GitHub
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Join our [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/4wvteUPphx) server or use the
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to meet with other Flow users!
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discussions section here on GitHub to meet with other Flow users!
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.dependencies = .{
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.url = "git+https://github.com/neurocyte/flow-syntax?ref=master#45d79d41562f3d9dcc53c7e2c38d7d829a2b2834",
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.url = "git+https://github.com/neurocyte/flow-syntax?ref=master#9106b13b4c98b145229ad643e7869f29c7b0816b",
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.hash = "flow_syntax-0.1.0-X8jOoY0TAQDl5k1-sO2KfcxrECQAsjwocoRmh3sbwEoi",
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.hash = "flow_syntax-0.1.0-X8jOoZQTAQCV2bjyceUHrRl_iu41imzTDLGT5R-XwT_9",
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},
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},
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.flags = .{
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.flags = .{
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.url = "git+https://github.com/neurocyte/flags?ref=main#984b27948da3e4e40a253f76c85b51ec1a9ada11",
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.url = "git+https://github.com/neurocyte/flags?ref=main#984b27948da3e4e40a253f76c85b51ec1a9ada11",
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