Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Written in Rust

Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by tim-- on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @09:30PM (#44372879)

As a specific benchmark, no. But that wasn't the point of linking to the PR. Although the command looks like a basic editor, it is surprisingly featureful.

Fuzzy search, regular expression find & replace.

I wonder how much work is going to continue going into the new command? Will it get syntax highlighting (someone has already forked it and added Python syntax highlighting: https://github.com/gurneesh9/scriptly) and language server support? :)

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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by _verandaguy on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @09:52PM (#44372981)

Right, these are more useful features, IMO, than the ability to rip through 125GB of data every second. I can live without that, but syntax highlighting's a critical feature, and for some languages LSP support is a really big nice-to-have. I think both of those are, in this day and age, really legitimate first-class/built-in features. So are fuzzy searching and PCRE find&replace.

Add on a well-built plugin API, and this will be nominally competitive with the likes of vim and emacs.

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