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Re: Microsoft Edit

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Post by trelane »

_verandaguy wrote: post #185
0points wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a text editor, yes, absolutely. As developers, we rotinely need to work with large data sets, may it be gigabytes of logs, csv data, sql dump or what have you. Not being able to open and edit those files means you cant do your job.

I work exclusively outside of the windows ecosystem, so my usual go to would be to pipe this through some filtering tools in the CLI long before I crack them open with an editor.

You could make an argument for emacs, but probably not using emacs as a pure text editor.

Re: Microsoft Edit

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Post by trelane »

delfinom wrote: post #175
Geezus_42 wrote: post #153

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But are you really trying to do that on a Windows Server? I feel like there are better tools for the job.

"Better tools for the job" isn't always "the tool currently bringing in the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$". So you live with it. Sure, maybe by switching to linux you can squeeze out an extra CPU core's worth of performance after you fire your entire staff and replace them with Linux experienced developers, and then rewrite everything to work on Linux. Or, live with it and make money money money money.

> make money money money money.

Subject, of course, to Microsoft allowing you to continue to use their software.

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Post by conductr »

simplyinfinity wrote: post #188
CineSnaccs wrote: post #140

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I don't know how many people don't know this, but now you actually can't release app on Windows without it showing your warning while installing unless you sign it with EV certificates, which cost upwards of 500$ for a year. As you may have guessed, this simply pushes out smaller devs. This used to NOT be like this. It should NOT be like this.

Good. This might suck for opensource devs, but for normies that might get a random exe link this is good. I've gotten numerous phone calls from relatives when they try to run some unrecognized app, most of the time is benign, but on few occasions it was something malicious.

It's a heavy tax to protect the ignorant. I hear things like this and think how I've been using a computer for nearly 4 decades and it's never once happened to me. Maybe those types of people need to re-evaluate their technology choices (maybe iPad is more appropriate) instead of taxing the entire ecosystem to protect them from themselves.

Re: Microsoft Edit

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Post by legends2k »

kristopolous wrote: post #92
bapak wrote: post #74

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I think not. Edit is to edit files in the terminal. What kind of files do you expect people to edit in the terminal? Most certainly files that would benefit from colors, not prose.

I met someone recently that still uses WordStar. Yes I'm serious. He runs it in QEMU on FreeDOS. He's a writer for a living.

Sure, there are always exceptions but they're only that, exceptions.

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Post by trelane »

egorfine wrote: post #113
zamadatix wrote: post #12

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The title is a bit confusing depending how you read it. Edit isn't "for" Linux any more than PowerShell was made for Linux to displace bash, zsh, fish, and so on. Both are just also available with binaries "for" Linux. The previous HN posts which linked to the blog post explaining the tool's background and reason for existing on Windows cover it all a lot better than a random title pointing to the repo.

TIL PowerShell exists for Linux. But.. why?

Well, parts of it do, anyway.

As with .net, it is not intended to let you easily get away from Microsoft.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/whats...

Re: Microsoft Edit

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Post by ashoeafoot »

If you are a idea guy and want your idea real , all you have to make is a fency fake trailer anouncing it, then watch the company create it, the suits are this empty anyone external can powersteer those ghostships.

Re: Microsoft Edit

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Post by ashoeafoot »

srvmshr wrote: post #107
san1927 wrote: post #101

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lmao is any body still using turbo cpp?

You'll be surprised if I tell you several universities in India have not updated their curriculum in a very long time & Turbo C++ (& its non-standard C++ flavor) is the weapon of choice. The school board in the '00s, which preferred to teach a programming language for CS, used to have it curriculum around this C++ dialect. I have passed my high-school board examinations with this language (It was known to be already…

embrace. extend. deadend.

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Post by rollcat »

TheAmazingRace wrote: post #35
jksmith wrote: post #30

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My first company out of uni was a company that sold a tv advertising application written in dos. It did all the reports, put together spot advert packages, measuring reach and frequency, cost per point, etc. Used Neilsen ratings for data. The company at the time paid commissions along with salary to programmers. The app still lives on in windows, but I've been out of that game for decades. Written in TP for dos, then…

Honestly dude, this is clever. Good on you for finding an opportunity to make a useful tool and you made out like a bandit in the process. :)

The broadcast industry continues to move at a slow pace compared to IT, and understandably - it's live TV, you need things to work 24/7/365.

That means there's always an opportunity for the resourceful.

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Post by bdcravens »

repler wrote: post #155
masfoobar wrote: post #146

About a month ago I heard Microsoft had their own Linux distribution to help Microsoft Windows users feel more at home. From memory, it was a rather simple GNOME setup. Nothing special. I am surprised Micrsooft didnt use the opportunity to create a micrsoft specific Linux distro that replaces bash with powershell, or Edit with vim, nano and other choices as well as .NET and Visual Studio Code by developer installs. M…

> I am surprised Micrsooft didnt use the opportunity to create a micrsoft specific Linux distro The last one didn’t do so hot, they named it “Xenix”

That wasn't Linux. Unix != Linux.

Re: Microsoft Edit

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Post by whou »

smartmic wrote: post #102
pxc wrote: post #16

I used to recommend micro[1] to people like those in the target audience of this editor. I wonder if that should change or not. -- 1: https://micro-editor.github.io/

There is also dte[1]. It hits exactly the same notch and offers an extremely lean editor with Unicode support, CUA key bindings and much more. It has replaced nano as my terminal editor. [1]: https://craigbarnes.gitlab.io/dte/

I'd recommend everyone to take a look and read some of dte's source code. It's a great example of beautifully written modern C code.
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