Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]
* Package name : msedit Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : Microsoft Inc. * URL : https://github.com/microsoft/edit * License : MIT Programming Lang: Rust Description : Console text editor (Microsoft Edit) Microsoft recently released an easy to use console text editor written in Rust licensed as MIT. Personally, I would love to see this be the default text editor for the Linux console because it should be the most familiar choice available for new users. Edit/msedit works with or without a mouse and is optimized for large files. And it has the same key bindings and interface modality as your web browser's text editor. It also still knows about code pages, line endings, regular expressions and tab settings. So I went and checked with the Edit/msedit team at Microsoft and they said they would be cool with me setting up a Debian package for it. Is adding a .deb for this one a realistic thing for me to want to do? I will be happy to maintain the packaging. Microsoft already has an active open source community committing a stream of PRs to this project. However, their Linux install is just ad-hoc. Thanks!
