Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor

On Wed, 21 May 2025 16:52:19 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> 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!

 
There's always Nano for those who can't cope with Vim/Emacs.

I used that recently, I think after sshing into a RPi 3+ board that didn't
have vim. For all the good stuff that works on Raspberry Pi OS, gvim
doesn't although vim does although it's not a default install.