OMG! Microsoft brought Edit back from the dead?

Open-sourced and Rust?!

And, in theory you can run it on mac and Linux?! At least they are bringing back edlin.

But, It's true. When I was looking for a small lightweight terminal editor in Windows, I either needed to take the Cygwin dependency for vim/gVim, or use Helix (which I had chosen so far).

#Edit #Edlin #vim #vi #gvim #TerminalEditor #ModelessEditor #Rust #OpenSource #Microsoft

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/edit/

Edit command line text editor

Learn how to use Edit, a command-line text editor, in Windows.

@KoolTechLord только #edlin, только хардкор!

Modern computers have tons of memory & disk. My desktop PC has 32GB memory and ¼TB NVME storage.

It's hard for some to imagine what programming was like when memory was counted in kilobytes and disks were single digit megabytes.

Here's a demonstration using #FreeDOS with 640kb memory and 5MB disk, using just #edlin and a C compiler to write programs. 🤓

➡️“Code like it’s the 1980s”

🌐 https://www.both.org/?p=10559

After a few weeks of procrastination, I finally took the time to read up on how to use EDLIN.COM. There's simply no way around it if you want to work with early versions of DOS from the 80s.

This here is me adding a few new lines to the AUTOEXEC.BAT of an IBM DOS 3.30. It ain't much, but it works! 😃

#DOS #RetroComputing #EDLIN #Oldschool #Retro #80s

MS-DOS/v4.0/src/CMD/EDLIN/MAKEFILE at 661305ed4e91e8ab578dcb96ac4816b0f32ece32 · microsoft/MS-DOS

The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 for reference purposes - microsoft/MS-DOS

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I think, for me, much like EDLIN, it's pretty much always been a matter of knowing that it was the default editor available in every incarnation of #UNIX and #Linux since, ... I dunno, ... 4.2BSD or so?

Perhaps I should say
vi, and in DOS I don't really recall when EDIT.COM supplanted #EDLIN, but do feel free to checkout my friend's more modern #FREDLIN in the link above. h/t to @dheadshot for creating a POSIX interpretation of that classic utility from the days when disk drives talked to you and diskettes shimmied...

Also, These
#Vim memes are some of the funnest elbows to the ribs of the person sitting next to you we can all enjoy together... unless, unless, Oh my gawd am I on Drugs?

Here's another one for folks to add to their collections, for foshizzles and giggles, of course, and we all can haz
#Cheezburgerz! 🍔

Kindest regards, and thank you for some of the very best cookbook style
#tuts, #HowTo's, and introspectives for the UNIX / Linux / FOSS world on the Internet :)

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Vim_or_Emacs? #lolz #pico #NetBeans #Kate #Geany #Bluefish #Vscodium



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RE:
mastodon.social/users/nixCraft/statuses/112112461370380508
GitHub - dheadshot/FREDLIN: A Free EDLIN-like line editor for Linux.

A Free EDLIN-like line editor for Linux. Contribute to dheadshot/FREDLIN development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
@gdinwiddie ah, i remember that! even remember #edlin - but that was no fun at all
Tutorial básico de EdLin

PeerTube