Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

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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Of all the excuses for reinventing the wheel, I’m not sure whether
this one is particularly creative, particularly lame, or both:
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    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.
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Really?? You wanted to spare your users the horrors of coping with
vim?!? They’re already suffering under Windows, for goshsakes!

Heh, at first I thought you were talking about EDLIN.

Believe it or not, I once worked with a team that used EDLIN to
write MASM code. One of the modules was about a megabyte. Paging to
the end of that file was excruciating... one 64K chunk at a time IIRC.

    *WAS text
    *WAS
    *WAS
    *WAS
     . . .

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