Microsoft Edit (wfm)
Don Marti <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Jun 2025 09:28:36 -0700
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I downloaded and built Microsoft Edit -- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/microsoft-surprises-ms-dos-fans-with-remake-of-ancient-text-editor-that-works-on-linux/ -- and it's pretty slick. Runs in a terminal but should be not confusing for people used to GUI conventions on other platforms. (Mouse works for menus and selecting text. ctrl-x, ctrl-c, ctrl-v work, you can do alt-f to open the file menu, all that stuff.) It doesn't look like there are any dependency or license issues with packaging it, and there are packages in some of the distributions already. When this gets into the mainstream distributions, users who read docs that say "edit the file..." and type "edit" followed by the filename will get something that works.