Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor

On 2025-05-21 05:37, Paul wrote:

On Tue, 5/20/2025 5:18 PM, Paul wrote:

On Tue, 5/20/2025 3:54 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

Kind of amusing to see the lengths that Microsoft keeps going to, to
try to bolster its sagging geek cred. Now it is introducing a new
command-line-based text editor for 64-bit Windows!
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<https://www.theverge.com/news/669318/microsoft-edit-on-windows-command-line-text-editor>

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Now, the problem with this, is it failed the very next test case.
     Name: out16GB.txt
    Size: 16,671,280,658 bytes (15 GiB)
    SHA256: D7C6EE1708BD905F3CF10A287D00649098FFEBBA6ACCD48AAE202FC8E24BDB41
     ./edit  ./out16GB.txt
 The program reads about 4GB of the file. It ignores the rest of the file
and I don't see a control for moving past that 4GB point.

The problem is that it doesn't error out "file too large". An editor not opening huge files is acceptable, but it has to produce an error, not fail silently.
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        Carlos E.R.