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noinsight • yesterday at 8:51 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> EDIT.COM becoming the new Notepad.

edit.exe[1,2] actually. And it runs on Linux too! Linux had a real lack of good text editors.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/edit

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

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gmueckl • yesterday at 10:08 PM

So I was about ready to rant about bloat in modern software, but I checked first: the new edit.exe for Windows is 260kB. The old editor for DOS 6.22 was actually provided by qbasic.exe, which had the editor and a full BASIC interpreter packed in 250kB. Edit.com was just a tiny wrapper.

This isn't bad at all given how most other software evolved in thr the intervening 30 years.