Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor

On 5/20/25 03:54 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!
 <https://www.theverge.com/news/669318/microsoft-edit-on-windows-command-line-text-editor>
 Of all the excuses for reinventing the wheel, I’m not sure whether
this one is particularly creative, particularly lame, or both:
      Microsoft also wanted to avoid the “how do I exit vim?” meme, so
     it built its own text editor instead of relying on other available
     options.
 Really?? You wanted to spare your users the horrors of coping with
vim?!? They’re already suffering under Windows, for goshsakes!

Goshsakes, what's wrong with notepad++?   I go through control panel and add the path to notepad++ to my system PATH, and bingo, any command line has a GOOD full featured editor.
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