Comment by MonkeyClub

The new Microsoft Edit is good. It's not as good as EDIT.COM, but it gets the job done.

A couple of peeves: it lacks word count (which would be very useful), and there is no way to escape to shell (which would render it more usable for light scripting tasks).

I don't mind it too much, but I dislike how it hijacks the selected terminal font in Windows Terminal, how you can't hit Esc to close the menus in a Linux terminal, and how not all functions can be accessed using the keyboard with direct shortcuts.

For example, to change which file you're editing, you have to select View > Focus Statusbar, press the left arrow, hit Enter to select the list of edited files, select the file you want to switch to, and press enter. I wonder why there's no shortcut for that, which would be a common use case.

For a side project, it's very nice all around. If these issues were to be fixed, it would be a perfectly adequate editor.

Then the only feature missing would be an embedded Lisp interpreter used for automation and extensibility. :)

Edit: It has no telemetry, right?