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You might enjoy the new Microsoft Edit [1]. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/edit

comment by currysausage · 2026-10-29 · in NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto

…days. Also one of the reasons I enjoy the previously HN featured Microsoft Edit project immensely - https://github.com/microsoft/edit . Thank you OP

comment by awhenderson · 2026-05-07 · in Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989

…editors, but none really scratched that Notepad itch. Surprisingly, I'm now a fan of MS Edit: https://github.com/microsoft/edit It's very simple and here's hoping they don't bloat this one out, too.

comment by xoxxala · 2026-04-13 · in Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it

Someone at Microsoft thinks the same ;-) https://github.com/microsoft/edit If you have Windows 11 it comes with this new (open source) `edit` written in Rust - open a command prompt and type `edit`. This is somewhat amusing, considering…

comment by ruevs · 2026-04-02 · in SolveSpace (open source 2D/3D CAD) working on Windows 2000 (2025)

…I can, which is not much. Maybe they're referring to the plugin system they want to implement: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/issues/17

comment by sorenjan · 2026-02-26 · in Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

…Atleast he has the decency to ask for stuff first and being straight. Hilarious comment by the way https://github.com/microsoft/edit/discussions/682#discussion...

comment by adithyassekhar · 2026-02-26 · in Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

…to add a lot of features to it. Make Microsoft Edit a Lightweight 'VS Code for the Terminal' - https://github.com/microsoft/edit/discussions/682

comment by sorenjan · 2026-02-26 · in Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

Step 5: reintroduce a plain-text editor [1] Step 6: GOTO 1. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/edit

comment by nxobject · 2026-02-26 · in Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

…edit.exe[1,2] actually. And it runs on Linux too! Linux had a real lack of good text editors. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/edit [2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/edit/

comment by noinsight · 2026-02-25 · in Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

Well, at least they brought back edit[0] [0] https://github.com/microsoft/edit

comment by scoopr · 2026-02-25 · in Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

There's also good old edit... ;-) https://github.com/microsoft/edit Yeah, it's a re-creation of edit, but it's pretty great... also runs outside windows.

comment by tracker1 · 2026-02-11 · in Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

…more features into Notepad. If you want simple plain text editor you have to use msedit[1]. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/edit

comment by core1024 · 2026-02-11 · in Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

…When was that ever the case? It's not even the most basic editor on Windows, which would be Edit. https://github.com/microsoft/edit

comment by charcircuit · 2026-02-08 · in Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

…is now back, in almost its former glory, just not yet installed in every Windows by default: https://github.com/microsoft/edit

comment by WorldMaker · 2026-01-21 · in Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11

Not a full IDE, but worth checking out: https://github.com/microsoft/edit

comment by skylurk · 2025-12-04 · in Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust

I personally like msedit. https://github.com/microsoft/edit

comment by noisem4ker · 2025-11-04 · in Customize Nano Text Editor (2022)

Also worth a look, if you want more TUI.. https://github.com/microsoft/edit

comment by tracker1 · 2025-11-04 · in Customize Nano Text Editor (2022)

…it for taking notes and maintaining my .plan files. The simple TUI interface is oddly calming [0] https://github.com/microsoft/edit [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/225837

comment by h4ch1 · 2025-10-25 · in TextEdit and the relief of simple software

…a version of ms Edit is now opensource. Not only that, it is extraordinary code to learn from: [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/edit [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031529

comment by nhatcher · 2025-10-18 · in IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)

I'm curious about that point you made about dependencies. This Rust project ( https://github.com/microsoft/edit ) is made with essentially no dependencies, is 17,426 lines of code, and on an M4 Max it compiles in 1.83s debug and 5.40s…

comment by taylorallred · 2025-06-26 · in Why is the Rust compiler so slow?

…recently when I did a sidequest into LuaJIT. Also, just made a PR to add Nix flake support to Edit: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/pull/534

comment by pmarreck · 2025-06-26 · in Microsoft Edit

I use nix-darwin on macos and just made a PR for nix flake support, which works on my macos: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/pull/534 Note that another editor called Micro is very similar: https://micro-editor.github.io/

comment by pmarreck · 2025-06-26 · in Microsoft Edit

EDIT: I made a PR to add a working flake.nix/flake.lock file https://github.com/microsoft/edit/pull/534

comment by pmarreck · 2025-06-26 · in Microsoft Edit

It might in the future, though, as the main developer has opened an issue about it: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/issues/18 The trick is doing it while keeping the binary size small, so tree sitter is not an option.

comment by _flux · 2025-06-25 · in Microsoft Edit

The possibility of using WASM was at least under discussion last month: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/issues/17

comment by vunderba · 2025-06-25 · in Microsoft Edit

…that could be used in the command line since then. It's impressive to see how fast this editor is. https://github.com/microsoft/edit/pull/408 > By writing SIMD routines specific to newline seeking, we can bump that up [to 125GB/s]

comment by tim-- · 2025-06-25 · in Microsoft Edit

…You can also compile directly from source on macOS - instructions here, I've not tried this yet: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/blob/main/README.md#build-...

comment by simonw · 2025-06-21 · in Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu

What font is on the screenshot? https://github.com/microsoft/edit

comment by neoden · 2025-06-21 · in Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu

…mixture of high-level and low-level console I/O, high-level for output and low-level for input. https://github.com/microsoft/edit/blob/main/src/sys/windows....

comment by JdeBP · 2025-05-20 · in Edit is now open source

…a long way off. Until then, I updated the issue to include your suggestion (thank you for it!): https://github.com/microsoft/edit/issues/17

comment by lhecker · 2025-05-20 · in Edit is now open source

…worth optimizing `Vec::splice`. I wrote myself a custom splice function to reduce the binary size: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/blob/e8d40f6e7a95a6e19765f... The differences can be quite significant: https://godbolt.org/z/GeoEnf5M7

comment by lhecker · 2025-05-19 · in Edit is now open source

Hey all! I made this! I really hope you like it and if you don't, please open an issue: https://github.com/microsoft/edit To respond to some of the questions or those parts I personally find interesting: The custom TUI library is so that I…

comment by lhecker · 2025-05-19 · in Edit is now open source