Microsoft’s Edit on Windows is a new command line text editor
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Summary
Microsoft has created an open-source command line text editor, Edit on Windows, for its Windows Insider programme, which allows developers to edit files in the command line without needing to open a separate application.
The company was prompted to build its own editor instead of using an existing one to avoid the “how do I exit VIM?” meme and to provide a default CLI editor for 64-bit versions of the operating system.
All menu options in Edit have key bindings, and it supports multiple files, find and replace, case matching and regular expressions, and word wrapping.
It will be available in the next few months and more information can be found on Microsoft’s GitHub repo.
Alongside this, the company is rebranding Windows Dev Home as Advanced Windows Settings, which provides additional customisation options for developers within the main Windows settings interface.