{"id":25,"date":"2025-08-06T23:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bacphan.dev\/?p=25"},"modified":"2025-08-06T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:50:09","slug":"a-terminal-editor-that-just-works-ms-edit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bacphan.dev\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/a-terminal-editor-that-just-works-ms-edit\/","title":{"rendered":"A terminal editor that just works: MS Edit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So most of the time, when i need to edit some config file in terminal, nano is my go to choice. It&#8217;s simple, it&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;s very simple to build: Install Rust and cargo build. You are done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s has clean interface, fast, and most important, &#8220;21st standard&#8221; shortcut: Ctrl S to save, Ctrl F to find, Ctrl Q to quit. That is just what i want. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe in the future it will become the standard text editor(But tbh I don&#8217;t think linux people will accept any MS-Software in their software stack, even if it&#8217;s 100% opensource).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, please give it a try: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/edit\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/edit\">https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/edit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s simple, it&#8217;s everywhere, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bacphan.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bacphan.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bacphan.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bacphan.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bacphan.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bacphan.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bacphan.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bacphan.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bacphan.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bacphan.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}