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

Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @09:34PM (#44372902)

There's no shortage of less technical people using nano for editing on Linux servers. Something even more approachable than that would have a user base.

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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by mikepurvis on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @12:57AM (#44373743)

Especially noting it's a single binary that's just 222kb on x86_64— that's an excellent candidate to become an "installed by default" thing on base systems. Vim and emacs are both far too large for that, and even vim-tiny is 1.3MB, while being considerably more hostile to a non-technical user than even vim is.

I can definitely see msedit having a useful place.

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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by hulitu on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @01:20AM (#44373857)

Midnight commander comes with mcedit.

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