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Microsoft Edit is coming to Linux (europe.pub)

submitted 2 weeks ago by melroy@kbin.melroy.org to c/linux@programming.dev

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The brand new Microsoft Edit, which is the successor of the old MS-DOS-editor will come soon to Linux as well?

There is a discussion going on how to call ms edit executable under Linux at: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/discussions/341

Microsoft Edit is fully written in Rust. And the source-code is actually fully open-source as well under MIT license 😮.

I personally would like see them calling it dos-edit or just dosedit, since that would be kinda funny. But I understand it will be called ms-edit instead.

I know Linux already has vi, vim, neovim and nano, ... and more... However is kind of ironic to see this binary be shipped to Linux distros. Of course it's already added to Arch btw: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ms-edit-git

Official GitHub page.

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 weeks ago

Because the same people who might be forced to use this tool on the job are the same who like linux.

They do the same with powershell en vscode and you can just remote terminal from linux into windows.

Its a small investment in making developers more comfortabel with their toold and thus increase chance they will use them.