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Edit is now open source (devblogs.microsoft.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by neme@lemm.ee to c/commandline@programming.dev

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Edit is a new command-line text editor in Windows

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[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Huh, thanks for the history and I missed that last part so thanks for that too!

It sounds like the original edit program might have been (at least partially) hand coded assembly or something (maybe some unportable C that made a variety of bad assumptions) if they were never able to port it to anything but 32-bit x86.

Maybe the new edit will gain any missing functionality eventually.

[–] deschutron@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

IIRC it was the loss of WoW in 64-bit Windows that killed it. WoW (Windows on Windows) was a 16-bit environment that ran on 32-bit NT-derived Windows systems, allowing them to run pre-95 applications and the MS-DOS environment. 64-bit Windows came out in the 00s, when Microsoft seemed to think the command-line was a relic of the past that they could afford to lose. Since then they've bought so much of the open source world, I think it's changed them.