A terminal editor that just works: MS Edit

I was born a little too late to be familar with VI/ Emac war, and try as I might, i can not get used to VI key binding.

So most of the time, when i need to edit some config file in terminal, nano is my go to choice. It’s simple, it’s everywhere, and it just works. But its key binding is stucking at the 90s(or even 80s, idk). The shortcut to save file is not Ctrl+S, Or Ctrl-F does not bring the pop up to search. I know i should learn its own set of shortcut, but i do not use it frequently enough to have it stick to my brain.

Recently, Microsoft has just released Edit. They claimed it was a revamp version of their old Edit editor(And what is that name, why computer nerd keep coming up with names that impossible to 1-word google search: Carbon, go, edit, nano).

I’ve been using edit for a while now. Nothing to complain, it works everywhere: Windows, Linux and even Mac. And thanks to Rust build system, it’s very simple to build: Install Rust and cargo build. You are done.

It’s has clean interface, fast, and most important, “21st standard” shortcut: Ctrl S to save, Ctrl F to find, Ctrl Q to quit. That is just what i want.

Maybe in the future it will become the standard text editor(But tbh I don’t think linux people will accept any MS-Software in their software stack, even if it’s 100% opensource).

So, please give it a try: https://github.com/microsoft/edit