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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 ๐Ÿ˜ฎ.

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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[โ€“] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's only a matter of time before MS figures out a copilot ncurses ui and Trojan horses the editor

[โ€“] Giloron@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

Joking like this is how vi got vigor.