TwoFold (2f), CLI text expander/template engine
Published on: 2025-07-06 19:28:46
TwoFold (2✂︎f)
Glorified curly bubbly templates,
Templates with a twist,
Duplex templates,
Mirroring blueprints,
Context aware frames,
Self-replicating, self-terminating forms,
Your text files breathe fire,
Sorcery of the highest order.
What is this ?
TwoFold is a small command line app that allows plain text files to behave like dynamic files. It is a hybrid between a text expander and a template engine.
It is also inspired by Emacs Org-mode, Python Jupyter Notebooks and React JS.
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TwoFold operates by processing a text file, identifying all LISP/XML-like tags and transforming them into useful outputs. It is compatible with XML and HTML documents, but you can customize the tag markers, and you can make them look like lisp, jinja2, nunjucks, etc.
TwoFold can watch your files for changes and allow real-time collaboration within the same file and location, for example: to validate some information, or calculate some stat
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