Edit is now open source

What I don't get is what people have against programs written in Rust from the bottom up. They are safer to use, introduce far fewer vulnerabilities, and you can even locally reason about the code much better than in typical 'unsafe' languages like C++.

Re: Edit is now open source

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Post by andrewstuart » Mon, May 19, 2025, 6:07 PM UTC

Edit for DOS was my favorite editor.

All the keys worked as you expect. You could select text with shift. It had find and a replace. That’s a lot more than most editors give you without config fiddling and arcane key commands.

Those simple things get almost everything I need for operating system maintenance.

Edit was the pure distilled essence of an editor.

It was a work of art really.

Re: Edit is now open source

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Post by mixmastamyk » Mon, May 19, 2025, 6:17 PM UTC

What happened to shipping yedit? From the yori project, which I recommend to everyone on windows. Why wait when it has been available for years?

(Someone mentioned ssh, which leads me to believe this one is using ansi instead of the console API.)

Re: Edit is now open source

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Post by tored » Mon, May 19, 2025, 6:23 PM UTC

Oh nice! Can't wait to replace nano. Plugin support in lua?

Re: Edit is now open source

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Post by 90s_dev » Mon, May 19, 2025, 6:24 PM UTC

tored wrote: post #8

Oh nice! Can't wait to replace nano. Plugin support in lua?

I hope someone adds typed Lua support and sends a PR!

Re: Edit is now open source

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Post by trinix912 » Mon, May 19, 2025, 6:24 PM UTC

I wonder what prevented them from porting the ms-dos EDIT.COM to 64bit Windows back then. There's still EDLIN.COM in the 32bit version.