Microsoft’s CLI text editor now does syntax highlighting

Edit, Microsoft’s open-source command-line text editor, has a new version out with syntax highlighting, improved regex handling in Find & Replace and new editing shortcuts. Microsoft open-sourced Edit last year. It’s a small, cross-platform t CLI text editor with VS Code-style keybindings, mouse support and an clean terminal user interface (TUI). It lets you open multiple files, handles LF and CRLF line endings and makes sense to novices. Syntax highlighting in Edit v2.0.0 is a big one. Developers build a custom, lightweight syntax highlighter. It only adds 40Kb to the binary but covers over a dozen popular programming languages, including […]
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