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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!!!!!.

Jai Hind

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On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 02:10:31 +0000
Operation Sindoor <[email protected]d> 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'?

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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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 <[email protected]d> 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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"Kerr-Mudd, John" wrote:

Operation Sindoor wrote:

Good luck and happy editing text files!!!!!.

Why don't I just use 'notepad'?

Real men edit text files using debug.com

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On 2025/7/15 10:52:48, Paul wrote:

On Tue, 7/15/2025 5:09 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 02:10:31 +0000
Operation Sindoor <[email protected]d> 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>

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!

[]
That question _does_ get answered - _sort of_ - in that discussion, but
you have to scroll down a lot, through discussions of programming languages!

Basically - as I understand it - they prefer it to Notepad as
• it opens faster
• it can handle bigger files (or, maybe, opens them faster)
• Notepad is beginning to be infected with complexity, such as AI.--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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On 7/15/2025 5:09 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 02:10:31 +0000
Operation Sindoor <[email protected]d> 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'?

or Notepad++

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On Tue, 7/15/2025 7:22 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

On 2025/7/15 11:17:22, Andy Burns wrote:

"Kerr-Mudd, John" wrote:

Operation Sindoor wrote:

Good luck and happy editing text files!!!!!.

Why don't I just use 'notepad'?

Real men edit text files using debug.com

... having created them in the first place using

    copy con: <filename>

(-:

And why not.

It is all good, if it serves a purpose.

If a DOS command allows you to finish a project, why the hell not.

I think the Microsoft Edit could make a name for itself,
if it could edit a 1TB text file. It seems to have a
4GB limit at the moment. It just stops loading your
text file at that point.

Paul

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On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:22:50 +0100
"J. P. Gilliver" <[email protected]> wrote:

On 2025/7/15 11:17:22, Andy Burns wrote:

"Kerr-Mudd, John" wrote:

Operation Sindoor wrote:

Good luck and happy editing text files!!!!!.

Why don't I just use 'notepad'?

Real men edit text files using debug.com

... having created them in the first place using

copy con: <filename>

(-:

Feh.

Echo This is line1 >newfile.txt
Echo This is line2 >>newfile.txt


--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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On 2025/7/15 15:3:27, Zaidy036 wrote:

On 7/15/2025 5:09 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 02:10:31 +0000

[]

Good luck and happy editing text files!!!!!.

Why don't I just use 'notepad'?

or Notepad++

Whenever this discussion starts, I wonder - was I the only one who used Notepad+ (rather than ++)?

(I can't remember what all the differences were; I haven't got round to
putting _any_ alternative to Notepad on this one. Though I _have_
implemented the "edit" from the beginning of this thread.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end.

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On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:35:37 +0100
"J. P. Gilliver" <[email protected]> wrote:

On 2025/7/15 15:3:27, Zaidy036 wrote:

On 7/15/2025 5:09 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 02:10:31 +0000

[]

Good luck and happy editing text files!!!!!.

Why don't I just use 'notepad'?

or Notepad++

Whenever this discussion starts, I wonder - was I the only one who used Notepad+ (rather than ++)?

(I can't remember what all the differences were; I haven't got round to putting _any_ alternative to Notepad on this one. Though I _have_
implemented the "edit" from the beginning of this thread.)

I replaced MS's Notepad with Notepad2 decades ago; it has syntax
highlighting and can limit multiple changes to a selected area.

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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On 2025/7/16 9:31:50, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:35:37 +0100
"J. P. Gilliver" <[email protected]> wrote:

On 2025/7/15 15:3:27, Zaidy036 wrote:

On 7/15/2025 5:09 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 02:10:31 +0000

[]

Good luck and happy editing text files!!!!!.

Why don't I just use 'notepad'?

or Notepad++

Whenever this discussion starts, I wonder - was I the only one who used
Notepad+ (rather than ++)?

(I can't remember what all the differences were; I haven't got round to
putting _any_ alternative to Notepad on this one. Though I _have_
implemented the "edit" from the beginning of this thread.)

I replaced MS's Notepad with Notepad2 decades ago; it has syntax
highlighting and can limit multiple changes to a selected area.

Notepad+ seems to have been passed by by most people! See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad%2B for> details.

I _had_ assumed that Notepad++ was so called to indicate that it was the
next step on from Notepad+, but on reading ++'s Wikipedia page, I see it
was given its name by its author based on the C "increment" syntax,
i. e. he saw it as an improvement on Notepad, not on Notepad+.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Parkinson: "What caused your conversion to women - was it the love of a
good one?" George Melly: "No the love of several bad ones"
(Lizbuff in UMRA '01-4-25)

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