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13 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 12 comments · first 2017-04-06 · latest 2025-06-22

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  1. …source code. Recently, I added color syntax highlighting to it, and support for unicode characters. https://github.com/DigitalMars/med
    comment by WalterBright · 2025-06-22 · in Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu
  2. Here's another one with a very small footprint: https://github.com/DigitalMars/med It's the one I use every day. The executable on Windows is a little over a meg. It also works on Linux and Mac.
    comment by WalterBright · 2022-12-27 · in Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
  3. This inspired me to: https://github.com/DigitalMars/med/commit/adcc084e2142723695...
    comment by WalterBright · 2021-09-11 · in A case against syntax highlighting (2007)
  4. …to display or play those files, too. Again with no special syntax whatsoever. It just works. https://github.com/DigitalMars/med
    comment by WalterBright · 2021-06-29 · in I still use plain text for everything. (2016)
  5. …over the years, most recently adding color syntax highlighting and Unicode. D version: https://github.com/DigitalMars/med C version: https://github.com/DigitalMars/me The "extension language" is it's so easy to just add some code and…
    comment by WalterBright · 2021-04-04 · in The Lost Apps of the 80s
  6. …a reasonably modern web browser out of bellard-ware… [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs [2]: https://github.com/DigitalMars/med
    comment by mhd · 2021-02-15 · in Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler
  7. …and began modifying it to taste. I've been using it ever since. The latest version was ported to D: https://github.com/DigitalMars/med It's a very easy editor to understand and extend.
    comment by WalterBright · 2021-01-19 · in Hecto: Build your own text editor in Rust
  8. …Microemacs (I use it nearly exclusively): C version: https://github.com/DigitalMars/me D version: https://github.com/DigitalMars/med The source is so simple, the "extension language" is just editing the code.
    comment by WalterBright · 2020-05-10 · in Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
  9. …The source code can be found here: https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler The editor I use is https://github.com/DigitalMars/med which is translated to D from the older C version https://github.com/DigitalMars/me I don't care for IDEs…
    comment by WalterBright · 2020-01-15 · in Writing Software to Last 50 Years
  10. I recently updated my editor ( https://github.com/DigitalMars/med ) to highlight in yellow all search matches on the screen. It works so damn well I am disgusted with myself for not thinking of this decades ago. It neatly finds the first…
    comment by WalterBright · 2019-03-17 · in Types Are Moving to the Right
  11. …list of lines. It is fast and memory compact, after all, it worked on a 64K DOS machine. https://github.com/DigitalMars/med
    comment by WalterBright · 2018-02-16 · in A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015)
  12. …which I still use and keep up to date: https://github.com/DigitalMars/me and translated to D: https://github.com/DigitalMars/med
    comment by WalterBright · 2017-04-06 · in Build Your Own Text Editor