The workplace next to WebDonkey.

On the left project (⌘1), remote (⌘2), Git (⌘9) and notes, at the bottom terminal (⌥F12), Mission Control, find (⇧⌘F), problems (⌘6), Git Graph and launcher, on the right Claude (⌘3), MCP (⌘7), WebDonkey (⌘4), database (⌘5), AI (⇧⌘I) and mail. Project and terminal are open at start; a dot on an icon marks a tool that is open as a tab or a window of its own.

Every tool window can be docked at the edge, sit as a tab between your files or live in a macOS window of its own, say on the second screen. Each side has two halves, so project on top and Git below it, for example. Close the tab or the window and the tool docks back in its place; a terminal keeps running meanwhile.

Dividers snap at ¼, ⅓, ½, ⅔ and ¾, a double-click switches between half and the last size. ⇧⌘' maximizes the tool windows of a side, ⇧⌘F12 hides them all, Esc takes you back to the code. In narrow windows the side docks float over the code.

The place of each tool applies to all projects. Which tools are open, the sizes, the open tabs and splits and what a tool showed last are remembered per project. Open it again and everything looks as before.

The workplace next to WebDonkey starts with your recent projects, your sites from WebDonkey and buttons to open a folder or clone a repository. Whether the editor reopens the projects that were open last or starts here is up to you.

The project menu in the title bar lists your recent projects. When you open another folder (⌘O), you choose: new window, this window or attach. Attached folders form a combination with a name of its own, and every project can have a macOS window of its own.

A tab can be a file, but also a terminal, a tool window, a diff, the local history, the settings, a database table or a mail. ⇧⌘T brings back one of the last 30 closed, ⇧⌘[ and ⇧⌘] switch. There are deliberately no preview tabs: open is open.

Drag a tab to an edge and the area splits there, as often as you like. ⌘\ splits to the right, “Split editor down” downwards. The same file in two areas is the same document: a change shows in both at once.

Bundled, so offline, with multiple cursors, folding, sticky scroll, coloured bracket pairs, minimap and word wrap if you want them. ⌘-click jumps to templates, classes, imports, snippet and config keys, ⌥⌘-click opens the target in a split. A .editorconfig in the project always applies.

Snippets with placeholders for JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Less, Markdown and Twig, including sw_extends, sw_block and trans for Shopware; ⇥ jumps from placeholder to placeholder. Emmet in HTML, PHP, Twig and the stylesheets: div.card>h2+p*2 and ⇥.

⇧⌘V shows Markdown as a page, JSON as a tree and SVG as an image, next to the code and live as you type. Above Markdown files and notes sits a toolbar for bold, headings, lists, checkboxes, quotes, code, links, images and tables. HTML files open in the browser.

On by default for local files: one second after the last keystroke and when you leave the window. Files on a server only go to the working copy, uploading happens on command. When you quit, the editor only asks about what is still unsaved by then.

When Git, a build or another program changes an open file, it reloads quietly as long as you have not changed anything. Otherwise you choose: compare, reload or keep yours. If you save anyway, the editor asks first.

Remove trailing spaces, not in Markdown, end the file with a newline and format with ⌘S: JSON, CSS, HTML, JavaScript and TypeScript, never on autosave. All of it is one step that ⌘Z takes back. ⌥⌘S saves all files.

With every save the editor keeps the previous version, at most one every five minutes, up to 40 per file, for 30 days, Git or no Git. Each one can be compared and restored, images and documents up to a size you set.

Files show their Git status, repositories their branch and the commits ahead and behind, and if you like every file and folder shows when something last changed. ⌘O opens a folder in a new window, in this one or attached; an attached folder gets a bar of its own, detaching deletes nothing.

⌘N offers an empty file, a folder and file types in groups that fit the folder: web, scripts, programming languages, data and configuration, documents, with “recently used” and search. Creating Word and Excel files is Premium.

New, open, open to the side, rename (⇧F6), duplicate (⌘D), cut, copy, paste, move to Trash (⌘⌫), copy paths, reveal in Finder, open a terminal or start Claude here, send to Claude, local history, launchers and the Git menu.

Move within the tree, copy with ⌥, drop in from Finder, into the code area to open, onto a terminal (the paths land in the prompt), onto Claude to attach, onto a server folder to upload and out of the editor into Finder.

⌘-click and ⇧-click select several entries, the keyboard does too. Cut, copy, Trash, moving, copying paths, sending to Claude and the Git menu then apply to all of them. A server's tree works the same way.

From an address, from GitHub through the GitHub CLI or from your local repositories, at a branch, tag or commit. For a local repository you choose between a worktree and a copy. A target that already exists and is not empty is never overwritten.

Conflicts, changes and untracked files as a list or a tree, with compare with HEAD, stage, unstage and restore for every file. In the repository menu switch, new branch, merge, rebase, stash and undo commit; anything risky asks first and says what will happen. Worktrees of one repository can be grouped.

Tick files, type a message, ⌘↩ commits, ⇧⌘↩ commits and pushes. Amend is among the other ways to commit. If a push is rejected, “Pull, then Push” does both; overwriting only goes through --force-with-lease with a confirmation.

New, changed and deleted lines are marked in the gutter. A click shows the version from the last commit right in the text, with “Restore these lines”. Compare with HEAD opens the whole file beside it, and the status bar can show who last changed the line.

A tool window of its own with the commits of all branches, their lanes and labels. A click on a commit names author, date, parents and changed files, the branch history view shows one branch on its own. The graph is view only.

With the GitHub CLI signed in: create a pull request, list open pull requests and check them out, open this branch's pull request. Open the repository in the browser. The editor never sees a password or token.

⌘T new, ⌘D split right, ⇧⌘D split down, ⌘W close, with a question if something still runs. Rename tabs with a double-click and move them as a tab into the code area; the programs keep running, even when you close the project.

Ctrl keys go to the program, ⌥ is Meta automatically, always or never. ⇧↩ sends Claude's newline, ⌘← and ⌘→ jump to the start and end of the line, ⌘⌫ deletes to the start of the line. Whether ⌘K clears the terminal or opens the command palette is up to you.

Paths like file.php:12:5, web addresses and OSC 8 links are clickable; in an SSH terminal a path opens the file on the server. ⌘F searches the scrollback, and you set how many lines it keeps.

When a program rings (bell, OSC 9, OSC 777), the tab gets a dot, and with the editor in the background macOS says: “Claude is waiting for you”.

A shell right on one of your servers, over the same connection as the remote window. The tab carries the connection's name, with a red edge for production.

Version, plan and sign-in, below them limits, instances, resume, agents, hooks and sessions, every section folding. If Claude Code is not signed in yet, a button opens the terminal for it; without WebDonkey the window starts claude in the terminal or installs it with Homebrew.

claude in an editor terminal finds the editor by itself. Proposed edits open as a tab “Claude proposes:” with accept (⌘↩) and reject, and you can edit the right side first. Claude sees the open file, your selection and the problems in the code.

Send selected lines to Claude with ⌥⌘K, or use “Send to Claude” in the project tree. Claude's prompt then holds the file with its lines and nothing is sent: you keep typing and press Enter yourself. With several sessions running, the editor asks which one.

Start Claude, ⌘⎋ and Resume can open Mission Control right away. Plus the searchable list of all earlier sessions, creating and editing agents and hooks, and agent CLIs for local models. Viewing agents and hooks and Mission Control itself stay free.

Every running server with kind, owner, processes and uptime, plus labels such as duplicate, port open or orphaned. Stop asks first and says what the client loses; Check starts the server a second time and asks whether it answers.

What your clients' files say, even when nothing runs, with state and scope. Add a server through a form or from a copied mcpServers block, saved with a backup copy. Editing, turning on and off and copying to other clients are Premium.

Which MCP clients the window found and from which file it reads their servers, each with a note on when the client picks up changes. If one is missing, add it as a custom client with Premium.

Every site with status, domain, SSL and PHP version, the project's own highlighted. Open in the browser, open as a project, start or stop. The sites also show up in the ⇧⇧ search and on the start screen.

Start, stop and restart services, run scheduled tasks right away. The services' config files open in the editor; after saving, WebDonkey checks nginx, Apache, Caddy and PHP and offers a reload. Logs as a tab and the global php.ini are Premium.

On the left branch, site and PHP version, a button that opens the site in the browser and a dot per service of the site: a click offers start, stop, restart and follow log. On the right the update notice, AI, the Claude limits, Git blame for the current line and cursor, language and indentation. Every entry can be hidden.

In WebDonkey every site has an “Open in editor” button, and under Settings › Sites & services you pick the editor for code. In the terminal wd edit brings the window to the front, wd edit file:line opens a file; with --wait the editor works as $EDITOR.

The caught mails of your local projects, with search and an unread counter, each as a tab; new ones appear by themselves. The embedded Mailpit is part of WebDonkey Premium.

The mailboxes you set up in WebDonkey: read, move nothing, mark nothing as read.

A notice and a button that opens Mailpit in the browser.

The theme follows WebDonkey or is set to Aurora, Arctic or System, with Premium also switchable from the theme menu in the title bar. Ready-made presets and the gallery for using and sharing looks are Premium, your own themes work on Free. Plus language, interface font size, density, motion, contrast and file icons.

Separately for editor and terminal: a typeface from your Mac's monospace fonts, size, line height, letter spacing, weight and ligatures. Geist Mono comes bundled.

Line numbers, minimap, word wrap, ruler, whitespace, bracket pairs, sticky scroll, folding and cursor; tab width and indentation from the file; Emmet; autosave and what happens on save; the ⌘-click rules with your own aliases.

Connect Claude Code, shell, cursor, scrollback, bell, ⌥ as Meta, copy on select, what ⌘K does in the terminal, rendering with WebGL or DOM and whether the terminal fills the editor area while no tab is open.

Every tool window except the project tree can be hidden, AI, launchers and services too. Hidden means: not loaded, no icon, no shortcut. This is also where the status bar entries live, what happens at start and when the window closes, the desktop widgets and Git.

Whether the editor detects launchers and from which sources: package.json, frameworks, composer.json, the Symfony, Shopware and Laravel consoles, Makefile and friends, Python, containers, toolchains, VS Code tasks and IntelliJ run configurations and the WebDonkey site. Plus the ▶ in the project tree and the question before the first start in a project.

Where Start Claude, ⌘⎋ and resume lead: automatic, the editor terminal or, with Premium, Mission Control. Plus your own server URL for local AI, the memory budget, file patterns that never go out as context, and the suggestions while typing.

How much room images and documents get in the local history, the pixel grid when zoomed in and the default quality for JPEG and HEIC.

Default excludes, .gitignore, hidden files, symlinks and encoding, limits for file size and hits, live search, grouping, the question before replacing and the search history.

A preview before every upload and download, mapped folders marked in the trees, the remote notices and, for searching on a server: what is left out, from which load the editor asks and where it stops.

The WebDonkey shims in editor terminals, so php, node and composer use the site's version, the version badge in the terminal, the service dots in the status bar and checking service configs on save.

Every shortcut of the editor in one list, searchable by command or key. Double assignments are marked; often that is on purpose, because a shortcut only works where it is needed.

Export settings saves everything that differs from the default as a JSON file; importing it moves your setup to a second Mac. Reset everything asks first, projects, terminals and themes stay.

Version, changelog, the licence list of the open source components used, and whether WebDonkey is connected, with its version and licence.

Imprint, terms, privacy, withdrawal, accessibility and security open as a tab in the editor, from About or the Help menu. Each page names the binding version on shop.webdonkey.io.

Right-click the desktop, Edit Widgets, look for WebDonkey Editor and pick widget and size. A new widget gets data within a minute; the desktop widgets block in the settings shows whether everything works.

macOS only grants lasting access to the widgets' shared storage with Full Disk Access. Without it the editor writes nothing for the widgets, rather than have you asked at every start. A button opens System Settings, and nothing leaves your Mac.

package.json with npm, pnpm, yarn or bun, frameworks like Vite, Next, Nuxt or Astro with their dev URL, composer.json, the Symfony, Shopware and Laravel consoles, Makefile, Python, Docker Compose, DDEV, Cargo, Go and more, plus VS Code tasks, IntelliJ run configurations and the services of the WebDonkey site. Every source can be switched off.

Whatever the editor does not detect, you add yourself: name, command, arguments, working folder, environment variables or a .env file and a launcher that should run first. Own launchers apply to this project only.

A project's scripts can do anything on your Mac that you can. So before the first start the editor shows the exact command and asks whether you trust the project; you can take that back at any time.

The start bar in the title bar shows the chosen launcher with its status, run, restart and stop, the main launcher on top of its menu. ⌃R runs the last launcher, ⌃⇧R the current file, and a ▶ in the project tree runs executable files and folders with launchers.