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One of the questions I haven't yet answered from research is whether it supports [Control]+[P]. That's another of the non-secret secrets of the original EDIT.
Yay for finally having a default text editor that works over ssh. Managing windows servers over ssh is a bit of a pain without. They could just have packaged nano, but oh well.
I wholeheartedly agreee. Nano is quite awesome, it is battle-tested and already has more features than needed for a basic text editor. Actually, Nano is too often frowned upon as too-basic, but is actually has a few advanced features that basic editors do not have (e.g., keyboard macros). I'd argue that Nano is simple rather than basic :). I tried discussing it here a few months ago but it did not took off: https://n…
Edit seems super approachable to newbies with it's mouse support in the menus. I love that and would love to see it in nano.
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Sure about that? So in 32bit Windows where we still have EDIT, do we also have QBASIC?
Yes. In those days of long ago, I saw the .COM extension with my own eyes and ran QBASIC /EDIT directly just for kicks. Once upon a time, this knowledge was one of those non-secret secrets that made it onto the letters pages of the computer magazines and into every "MS-DOS secrets" book out there. (-: And yes, Windows NT 4 had the MS-DOS QBASIC.
I love that it has a toolbar with shortcut keys highlighted at the top. I wish more TUI programs had that, especially vim!
Zellij is a good example of a tui with shortcuts in the UI. Helped me learn them way better than I would have otherwise
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I wholeheartedly agreee. Nano is quite awesome, it is battle-tested and already has more features than needed for a basic text editor. Actually, Nano is too often frowned upon as too-basic, but is actually has a few advanced features that basic editors do not have (e.g., keyboard macros). I'd argue that Nano is simple rather than basic :). I tried discussing it here a few months ago but it did not took off: https://n…
I love nano and used it as my terminal editor on Linux. Edit seems super approachable to newbies with it's mouse support in the menus. I love that and would love to see it in nano.
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I have, as they say in the theatre, notes. Lots of notes. Possibly beginning with a request to stop calling these "VT" sequences. Quite a lot of this wouldn't work on an actual DEC Video Terminal. One of the questions I haven't yet answered from research is whether it supports [Control]+[P]. That's another of the non-secret secrets of the original EDIT.
That is incredibly pedantic even by your standards.
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Since windows 10/windows server 2019 afaik. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15904265
Thanks! It always bugged me that Windows didn't have a sshd, since it's so popular outside of Windows. I thought the reason for it not being added would be admitting a failure somewhere - RDP not winning or something. Seemed odd to prevent a way into Windows Server.
But, of course, it's a remote desktop protocol. Meanwhile Windows Server has been steadily moving onto command line & PowerShell for system administration for the past 12 years or so. The bespoke solution for remote admin has been remote PowerShell for a while, so ssh is arguably competing with that.
Interesting how we always go in circles. edit.cmd was one of the first programs I ever used. Now it's back rewritten as a Windows 10+ program in Rust? Yet it looks and works just the same as 30 years ago!
You probably mean edit.com, which is what I thought of when I saw this post. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS_Editor
Hey all! I made this! I really hope you like it and if you don't, please open an issue: https://github.com/microsoft/edit To respond to some of the questions or those parts I personally find interesting: The custom TUI library is so that I can write a plugin model around a C ABI. Existing TUI frameworks that I found and were popular usually didn't map well to plain C. Others were just too large. The arena allocator e…