Depends what it's for. I think a simple CLI text editor like this probably shouldn't have any smarts. Obviously an IDE like VSCode or IntelliJ should.
this post was submitted on 26 May 2025
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Given the announcement of edit replacing the old 32-bit MS-DOS edit.com with minimal footprint, I was surprised Microsoft considered multi-platform to even be in-scope.
I guess, given it's Rust, it was simple to say "sure, why not". But this ticket shows that you automatically have to discuss and handle multi-platform questions that arise.
The things the author mentioned drive me nuts about visual studio…. Especially trivial completions, like brace pairing, their thirst to add these newb-crutches leads me to backspacing and retyping over and over again, trying to figure out what the editor did that I didn’t even notice and how to undo it. For something that is literally a 20ms muscle memory action for any experienced programmer.
Most of those can be disabled in Visual Studio, though, right?
I think I may have disabled some of those kinds of conveniences/automatisms.
MS, please take a look at Metapad for how to build a good basic text editor with some smart features.
Metapad is a small, fast and completely free text editor for Windows (95/98/NT/XP/Vista/7) with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepad's features and much, much more.
Oh, that's cool, in only 200 kB! It's a GUI app, though.
Just add .editorconfig support for insert_final_newline.
Honestly, pleasantly surprised that this piece of software exists. I didn't think that Microsoft's policy of "shove 'AI' into as many places as possible" was compatible with things such as having a functional text editor.
/s
Someone already tried to add AI support to it. They only failed due to their own incompetence.
can't say i'm surprised but fuck that's funny