Edit is a new open source command line text editor from Microsoft that supports Windows, macOS and Linux. Learn what it can do, and how to try it on Ubuntu.
  • Chris@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    53 minutes ago

    I’ve just given this a quick try in Windows (sorry, didn’t want to infect Linux with MS stuff) and… it’s pretty good.

    I might install it in Linux although I’ll probably still use nano.

  • Fargeol@lemmy.world
    182·
    13 hours ago

    Well, it’s made by Microsoft so I would stay away from it, even if it’s FOSS, it’s still entitled to enshitification, so…

    sees that it’s made with Rust

    I’ll probably use it on a daily basis!

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
    24·
    14 hours ago

    Psa: the reason Microsoft makes these tools linux friendly is because the know thats where the developers are at and they want them to stay familiar with their tools.

    It also lowers the amount of fuss developers make when work forced them to use powershell etc because at least they can remote control and script from linux.

  • ter_maxima@jlai.lu
    12·
    13 hours ago

    I don’t like M$, but this is my new number one recommendation for new programmers. It gets them to stay within the command line, while having the normal shortcuts they’re used to from using a computer already.

    I love Vim, but it’s a chore to learn when you’re also learning programming on top. Emacs is even worse, it tricks you by being a non-modal GUI, but your keyboard shortcuts all do something new and slightly insane now.

  • redlemace@lemmy.world
    10·
    13 hours ago

    install snap to run MS edit … more likely I’d install ms-dos 3.22 and run the original edit in there.

    • Axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      151·
      14 hours ago

      There is legitimately no reason to use snap for this.

      Especially when this utility is a single fucking 217 KILOBYTE standalone binary.

      Just download it from github and toss it in ~/.local/share/bin

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    101·
    15 hours ago

    … Surprised it took them this long to get a tui editor in Windows. I would have assumed they had at least something somewhere.

  • yesman@lemmy.world
    51·
    13 hours ago

    I’m trying to imagine the user that both needs a text editor in the command line, yet is uncomfortable outside a gui.

    I write scripts all day, but closing a program without clicking the little ‘x’ is scary and weird.