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Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor

From "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor
Date 2025-05-21 11:51 +0200
Message-ID <m95m0qFl2isU5@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <100hcgj$2502r$1@dont-email.me> <100irif$2e384$1@dont-email.me> <100jhpg$2lkgq$1@dont-email.me>

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On 2025-05-21 05:37, Paul wrote:
> On Tue, 5/20/2025 5:18 PM, Paul wrote:
>> On Tue, 5/20/2025 3:54 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> Kind of amusing to see the lengths that Microsoft keeps going to, to
>>> try to bolster its sagging geek cred. Now it is introducing a new
>>> command-line-based text editor for 64-bit Windows!
>>>
>>> <https://www.theverge.com/news/669318/microsoft-edit-on-windows-command-line-text-editor>

...

> Now, the problem with this, is it failed the very next test case.
> 
>     Name: out16GB.txt
>     Size: 16,671,280,658 bytes (15 GiB)
>     SHA256: D7C6EE1708BD905F3CF10A287D00649098FFEBBA6ACCD48AAE202FC8E24BDB41
> 
>     ./edit  ./out16GB.txt
> 
> The program reads about 4GB of the file. It ignores the rest of the file
> and I don't see a control for moving past that 4GB point.

The problem is that it doesn't error out "file too large". An editor not 
opening huge files is acceptable, but it has to produce an error, not 
fail silently.



-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.

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Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-20 07:54 +0000
  Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-20 04:17 -0400
  Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-05-20 08:21 -0400
    Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-21 00:17 +0000
      Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-21 03:04 +0000
    Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Jason H <jason_hindle@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-27 19:19 +0000
  Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-05-20 11:14 -0400
    Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-05-20 11:42 -0400
    Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-20 22:49 +0200
  Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-20 19:25 +0000
    Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2025-05-20 14:35 -0600
      Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-21 00:16 +0000
      Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2025-05-21 02:22 +0000
        Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-05-21 03:08 +0000
      Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-21 02:47 +0000
      Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-20 22:48 -0400
        Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-21 03:26 +0000
          Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-05-21 19:52 +0000
            Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-22 19:54 +0200
          Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-21 22:02 +0000
            Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-05-22 20:50 +0000
        Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2025-05-21 01:30 -0600
          Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-21 08:51 +0000
          Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-21 22:05 +0000
      Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-05-21 08:43 -0400
    Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-20 22:51 +0200
      Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-21 02:55 +0000
        Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-21 11:47 +0200
          Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-21 21:32 +0000
            Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-21 17:50 -0400
              Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-22 03:31 +0000
    Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Jason H <jason_hindle@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-27 19:26 +0000
  Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-20 17:18 -0400
    Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-20 23:37 -0400
      Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-21 11:51 +0200
    Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-05-21 21:36 +0000
  Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-05-21 16:52 +0000
    Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-21 21:52 +0000
  Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-05-21 20:52 +0000
    Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-21 17:23 -0400
      Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-22 04:10 -0400
    Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-05-22 06:59 -0400
      Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-22 17:39 +0000
        Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-05-22 19:00 +0000
          Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-22 15:51 -0400
    Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-05-22 20:50 +0000
      Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-05-22 21:03 +0000
        Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-22 18:18 -0400
        Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-05-24 21:00 +0000
          Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-25 15:27 -0400
          Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-05-25 21:04 +0000
            Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-25 18:05 -0400
            Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-05-26 01:20 +0000
            Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-26 13:17 +0200
            Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-05-26 19:40 +0000
              Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-27 13:08 +0200
                Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-27 23:55 +0000
                Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-28 12:38 +0200
                Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-30 07:18 +0000
                Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-05-30 08:47 -0400
        Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-05-26 01:33 +0000
      Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-22 18:16 -0400

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