edit

You might enjoy the new Microsoft Edit [1]. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/edit

I haven't felt a lot of desire to code in Rust but I do now! Absolutely applaud this project - it's completely tugged on the retro nostalgia strings for my Turbo Pascal days. Also one of the reasons I enjoy the previously HN featured Microsoft Edit project immensely - https://github.com/microsoft/edit. Thank you OP

I don't need anything more than a simple text editor. Notepad worked fine for a long time, but the bloat is real. I tried a bunch of replacement editors, but none really scratched that Notepad itch. Surprisingly, I'm now a fan of MS Edit: https://github.com/microsoft/edit It's very simple and here's hoping they don't bloat this one out, too.

Someone at Microsoft thinks the same ;-) https://github.com/microsoft/edit If you have Windows 11 it comes with this new (open source) `edit` written in Rust - open a command prompt and type `edit`. This is somewhat amusing, considering all the bloat that it comes with otherwise. Even `notepad` has become rather... feature full... it has tabs, spell checking and AI...

The maintainer is the first comment, agreeing with the post author: > I concur, but there are two issues with this: Building the foundation of an editor is way harder than building features later on top of that, and currently it is unlikely that Microsoft will fund me to spend half a year working purely on this project. So, I'll work on this whenever I can, which is not much. Maybe they're referring to the plugin system they want to implement: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/issues/17

Oh god no, it's not the maintainer. It's frankly a student with no prior experience in both the language and the codebase, asking the maintainer permission for pushing a lot of ai generated code with chatgpt for his resume? Atleast he has the decency to ask for stuff first and being straight. Hilarious comment by the way https://github.com/microsoft/edit/discussions/682#discussion...

It hasn't gotten to that point yet, but the maintainer of edit wants to add a lot of features to it. Make Microsoft Edit a Lightweight 'VS Code for the Terminal' - https://github.com/microsoft/edit/discussions/682

Step 5: reintroduce a plain-text editor [1] Step 6: GOTO 1. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/edit

> EDIT.COM becoming the new Notepad. edit.exe[1,2] actually. And it runs on Linux too! Linux had a real lack of good text editors. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/edit [2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/edit/

Well, at least they brought back edit[0] [0] https://github.com/microsoft/edit

There's also good old edit... ;-) https://github.com/microsoft/edit Yeah, it's a re-creation of edit, but it's pretty great... also runs outside windows.

It looks like, after Microsoft discontinued WordPad, they want to implement more features into Notepad. If you want simple plain text editor you have to use msedit[1]. [1]https://github.com/microsoft/edit

>After all, Notepad is supposed to be the absolute barebones, most ultra-basic app in the entire OS. When was that ever the case? It's not even the most basic editor on Windows, which would be Edit. https://github.com/microsoft/edit