Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor

On 2025-05-20 17:14, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

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
      . . .
 

I once used edlin with keyboard and printer, the display was broken.
They did a console editor, I think named "edit", in MsDOS 6 perhaps.
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Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.