[DISCUSSION] Microsoft Edit

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  1. Tito

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  2. Carlos Detweiller

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    It is a console-based fullscreen text editor with a pseudo-GUI. It's nothing like the good old EDLIN.COM from DOS, a true line editor.

    The MS DOS Editor under MS-DOS was actually written into QBASIC and required QBASIC.EXE to be present. It had a size limit of about 64KB, I hope this one hasn't.
    Additionally, will ìt run only under Windows 11?
     
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    #3 CaptainKirk1966, May 20, 2025
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    I still like Notepad, the classic version, not the Windows 11 version.;)

    Otoh, this may be a nice text based editor for linux, no x-windows or other graphical desktop needed.
     
  4. Enthousiast

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    Me too, IF it could be set to dark mode.

    The win 11 version has dark mode but i keep forgetting to save the tabs instead of just closing the entire editor and expecting the question to save my work:D
     
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    I doubt "users largely unfamiliar with terminals" would find it easier to use vim console edit :rolleyes:
     
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    What, you mean it doesn't offer to save with multiple tabs and changes exist? I never noticed, but then I very seldom use Notepad, and pretty much never use it for writing. I have .txt files set to open in the editor of my choice (gvim), but some applications ignore the windows settings and automatically use notepad -- which irritates me, but what are you gonna do?
     
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    Like notepad++ it just closes and when you open it again the tabs are still present but the legacy notepad doesn't have tabs and at closing it asks to save your work.
     
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    For Notepad++, you can disable this behavior (uncheck "Remember last session for next launch" in the settings under "Backup").
     
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    Yeah, but not Windows 7.
     
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  12. nodnar

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    well, linux has a perfectly adequate text editor in gedit.so;why bother??
    and rust?? to quote wikipedia;
    Rust was adopted by companies including Amazon, Discord, Dropbox,
    Google (Alphabet), Meta, and Microsoft.

    so;all the wrong ones in a bunch.

    and i do not trust those august companies any further than i can throw them.
    at least you could trust the trusty old dos edit tool not to phone home
    every 5 seconds;it was incapable of it.
    seems to me like m$ is reinventing the wheel again. just my 2 cents.
     
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