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Posted by ethanpil 6/25/2025

Microsoft Edit(github.com)
486 points | 322 commentspage 2
Aldipower 6/25/2025|
I appreciate the sense of humor coming from this project. F.ex. from the release note: "As Steve Ballmer famously said: Fixes! Fixes! Fixes!".

Refreshing to see employees can have fun in a multi billion dollar company.

majkinetor 6/25/2025||
I thought this might work with Enter-PSSession but it unfortunatelly produced Error 0x80070006: The handle is invalid.

Insane that we don't have TUI in remote session in 2025.

DSMan195276 6/25/2025|
Agree 100%, that's the biggest difference I feel whenever I'm doing remote Powershell vs. ssh, it always feels like a struggle just to make basic file modifications.
kasajian 6/26/2025||
I'm just waiting for this thing to turn into an IDE like Turbo C 2.0 ( https://imgur.com/5vyPZdO ) I don't see why this shouldn't turn into a sophisticated code editor. I get that that's not the goal, but there's nothing else like it available -- all other text based editors do their own thing, completely ignoring the common-user interface as if it's a thing they've never heard of ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access )
christophergray 6/26/2025|
https://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde/ is a TUI editor with something similar to CUA.
fsniper 6/25/2025||
Microsoft loves to own general terminology like "edit" for their products. I have no idea how this flys.

SqlServer like it's the one that found sql or it's the only product that serves sql.

red_admiral 6/25/2025||
The copy command is called "copy" which kind of makes sense? I remember once seeing a colleagues .bashrc with things like "alias copy=cp". Flags won't work the same way of course.

Sure "chcp" is a mouthful, but "del" or "erase" makes as much sense as learning that "rm" is short for remove. You pick up either convention quickly enough, except that I'm constantly using "where" when I meant "which". Maybe I should make an alias or something.

Don't get me started on powershell's look-we-can-use-proper-words-lets-see-how-long-we-can-make-this.

not_a_bot_4sho 6/25/2025|||
I know what you mean but everyone does this.

Apple has Pages, Numbers, Keynote, etc. Google has Drive, Docs, Sheets, etc. Meta has Messenger. Far too many examples to list.

Conversely, it would be ridiculous to use non-obvious names.

fsniper 6/26/2025||
In fact you are right! Somehow This didn't register. Thank you.
delfinom 6/25/2025|||
>I have no idea how this flys.

They aren't trademarking it and probably can't.

But there's no reason they anyone can't use generic naming for their products. Many software applications do and quite frankly its more descriptive to attracting new users than coming up with non-real names.

I would aruge the only reason made up names exist is to keep marketing departments employed trying to explain to users what they are needlessly.

athom 6/27/2025||
The one I love is Microsoft's project manager, MS...

...wait for it...

...Project.

Was charged with managing a department-wide installation about fifteen years back, now. You want to have fun looking for relevant docs, try a search on "Microsoft Project". Good times!

I think the one exception to Microsoft's generic naming convention is Excel. Visio probably qualifies, too, but they bought that from someone else.

Oh, and I guess PowerPoint, too.

xyst 6/25/2025||
It will take more than nostalgia and rust to tear me away from my neovim setup that has been built up/improved on over the years. Lsp, dap, autocompletion, aliases and bindings for each programming languages. Lazily loaded of course so it’s still snappy.

Manage configuration, and external dependencies such as lsps with nix.

Then have separate nix shells for each project to load tooling and other dependencies in an isolated/repeatable session. Add in direnv to make it more seamless development experience.

watusername 6/25/2025||
You are not the target audience. This is aimed at casual users and beginners, and it's already in a good shape to replace nano with its user-friendly, mouse-enabled TUI.
encom 6/25/2025||
>in a good shape to replace nano

...

Anyways, here's how to tell if your LED sign is cheap!

pmarreck 6/26/2025|||
Sell me on Neovim.

It blipped on my radar recently when I did a sidequest into LuaJIT.

Also, just made a PR to add Nix flake support to Edit:

https://github.com/microsoft/edit/pull/534

legends2k 6/25/2025||
Huge +1, same for me, but with GNU Emacs instead of neovim but can completely appreciate the philosophy.
0x0 6/25/2025||
I was hoping this would work over ssh in a macOS Terminal.app, but last I tried it was inserting all kinds of weird characters into the edited text files.

Windows ships an official OpenSSH server these days, but so far there haven't been any good official text editors that work over OpenSSH, as far as I know.

I've had to resort to "copy con output.txt" the few times I needed to put things into a text file over windows-opensshd...

mixmastamyk 6/25/2025|
Maybe using ucs2 encoding, instead of utf8?
andrewstuart 6/25/2025||
I love edit.

It was my favorite editor back in the old days.

It worked, did the basics really well and got the job done. Glad to see it’s back.

gnabgib 6/25/2025||
Discussion (271 points, 1 month ago, 185 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031529
90s_dev 6/25/2025|
I don't understand why they want to go with DLLs for scripting instead of WASM + wamr which is really small. Maybe I'm just really inexperienced in this space.
vunderba 6/25/2025|
The possibility of using WASM was at least under discussion last month:

https://github.com/microsoft/edit/issues/17

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