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The new Microsoft Edit is good. It's not as good as EDIT.COM, but it gets the job done. A couple of peeves: it lacks word count (which would be very useful),
by MonkeyClub 1y ago
The new Microsoft Edit is good. It's not as good as EDIT.COM,
but it gets the job done.
A couple of peeves: it lacks word count (which would be very useful),
and there is no way to escape to shell (which would render it more
usable for light scripting tasks).
I don't mind it too much, but I dislike how it hijacks the selected
terminal font in Windows Terminal, how you can't hit Esc to close the menus in a Linux terminal, and how not all functions can be accessed using the
keyboard with direct shortcuts.
For example, to change which file you're editing, you have to
select View > Focus Statusbar, press the left arrow, hit Enter to
select the list of edited files, select the file you want to switch
to, and press enter. I wonder why there's no shortcut for that,
which would be a common use case.
For a side project, it's very nice all around. If these issues were to be fixed, it would be a perfectly
adequate editor.
Then the only feature missing would be an embedded Lisp interpreter
used for automation and extensibility. :)
Edit: It has no telemetry, right?
- ladyanita22 1y agoWhy is it not as good as EDIT.COM?