cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37661765

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Source: Windows Insiders blog.

  • Axum@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    42·
    2 days ago

    What’s funny is that this likely irritated one of Microsofts own devs enough that they said ‘fuck all of this’ and invented the new cli app called Edit.

    It’s under 200kb and runs as a standalone binary if you want. Also supports mouse input.

    Did I mention it’s cross platform?

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        6·
        2 days ago

        Well, yes, but actually no. It’s more like MS-DOS’s EDIT.COM since it runs in a command line / “DOS” window.

        In fact, since EDIT.COM went through a couple of distinct variants back in the day, you could say that this is the third variant of it.

        The other two being 1) the BASIC-deactivated side of QBASIC.EXE which was an editor and programming language in one, and then 2) a stand-alone, from the ground up, version (with no BASIC to disable) which came along with Win9x / MS-DOS 7.

        I keep a copy of the latter in my DOSBox config. It’s only 70kB.

        • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          I didn’t mean the style chosen for the editor. I only meant the tagline.

          And edit,com was the shit and will always be my top 5 favorite text editors. Yes, more than vim.

          Edit: changed the . to a , so it won’t be a url lol

          • palordrolap@fedia.io
            3·
            6 hours ago

            Markdown varies a little from instance to instance, but you ought to be able to get away with a backslash before a problematic character (like that dot) or else backticks around something to get monospace text.

            edit\.com → edit.com `EDIT.COM` → EDIT.COM

            Try not to twist your brain on how I managed to get the left hand sides of those arrows.