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On Tue, 7/15/2025 5:09 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 02:10:31 +0000
Operation Sindoor <Operation.Sindoor@invalid.invalid> wrote:
Official binaries for Microsoft Edit Version 1.2.0 now available from
this official link:
<https://github.com/microsoft/edit/releases/download/v1.2.0/edit-1.2.0-x86_64-windows.zip>
The above link is live and if you want to read before downloading then
try this link:
<https://github.com/microsoft/edit/releases/tag/v1.2.0>
The advantage of zip file means you just unzip it and start using it.
There is no need to install anything.
No 32 bit version but you can download the source code and compile it
for 32 bit version. It is all at the above link.
Good luck and happy editing text files!!!!!.
Why don't I just use 'notepad'?
There's a paragraph here, giving some of the flavor
of where this came from.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031529
"Regarding the choice of Rust, I actually wrote the prototype in C, C++, Zig, and Rust!
Out of these four I personally liked Zig the most, followed by C, Rust, and C++
in that order. Since Zig is not internally supported at Microsoft just yet
(chain of trust, etc.), I continued writing it in C, but after a while I became
quite annoyed by the lack of features that I came to like about Zig. So, I ported
it to Rust over a few days, as it is internally supported and really not all that
bad either. The reason I didn't like Rust so much is because of the rather
weak allocator support and how difficult building trees was. I also found the lack
of cursors for linked lists in stable Rust rather irritating if I'm honest.
But I would say that I enjoyed it overall."
He was canoeing up the Zambezi, and and, bagged an elephant.
There was a bit of a problem, putting the elephant in the canoe.
Paul
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