Microsoft Edit - Hacker News

Posted by ethanpil 6/25/2025

486 points | 322 commentspage 3

ubermonkey 6/25/2025|

I do not understand the love this project is getting. It was a shit editor when it was introduced; we'd all started using something else years before.

riffic 6/25/2025|

agreed. it's nostalgic sure but it's not a good editor.

mixmastamyk 6/26/2025||

It’s for fixing boot.ini on a broken headless vm at 2am, not for software development.

dbuxton 6/25/2025||

I came here assuming that this was a clone of Gemini CLI (which is a clone of Claude Code). Both pleased and disappointed to be wrong.

csense 6/25/2025||

Fun project #1: Get the binary size comparable to EDIT.COM

Fun project #2: Port to MS-DOS (with DPMI)

Fun project #3: Port to 16-bit MS-DOS (runs on original 8086)

tempire 6/25/2025||

fake. it's not blue.

mixmastamyk 6/26/2025|

Believe you could change the background color in DOS edit.

kspacewalk2 6/25/2025||

How long until it becomes Copilot 365 Edit?

bluedino 6/25/2025||

> This editor pays homage to the classic MS-DOS Editor

Oddly, it looks more like Borland's editor.

kevin_thibedeau 6/25/2025|

TurboVision had horizontal scrollbars. Edit never did.

mixmastamyk 6/26/2025||

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/microsoft-surprises-...

The screen shot says differently.

parliament32 6/25/2025||

The lengths people will go just to not have to learn Vim continues to surprise me.

napolux 6/25/2025||

oh, the memories. gorilla.bas :)

homebrewer 6/25/2025||

It can still be played in a browser: https://archive.org/details/GorillasQbasic

boobsbr 6/25/2025||

also, nibbles.bas

guerrilla 6/25/2025||

Maybe this makes up for them destroying Notepad for some people.

gadders 6/25/2025|

Do Edlin next.

Reminds me of my days on a support line.

"Type edit autoexec.bat....." etc

trinix912 6/25/2025|

And DEBUG. It's sad we no longer have a debugger/(dis)assembler/binary editor bundled with Windows. That thing was tiny but you could do so much with it.

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