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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 11:14:20 -0400
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> Kind of amusing to see the lengths that Microsoft keeps going to, to
> try to bolster its sagging geek cred. Now it is introducing a new
> command-line-based text editor for 64-bit Windows!
>
> <https://www.theverge.com/news/669318/microsoft-edit-on-windows-command-line-text-editor>
>
> Of all the excuses for reinventing the wheel, I’m not sure whether
> this one is particularly creative, particularly lame, or both:
>
>     Microsoft also wanted to avoid the “how do I exit vim?” meme, so
>     it built its own text editor instead of relying on other available
>     options.
>
> Really?? You wanted to spare your users the horrors of coping with
> vim?!? They’re already suffering under Windows, for goshsakes!

Heh, at first I thought you were talking about EDLIN.

Believe it or not, I once worked with a team that used EDLIN to
write MASM code. One of the modules was about a megabyte. Paging to
the end of that file was excruciating... one 64K chunk at a time IIRC.

    *WAS text
    *WAS
    *WAS
    *WAS
     . . .

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