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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by _flux on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @02:49AM (#44374287)
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.

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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by ComputerGuru on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @12:31PM (#44379135)
Vim (and so many other editors, too) supported syntax highlighting for decades before TreeSitter even existed. Let’s not act as if this is a novel challenge.
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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by kasajian on Thursday June 26, 2025 @12:59PM (#44389168)
why would the binary size be big to support this? Scintilla has been doing syntax color for decades -- it's pretty small.
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