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Bug#1121214: ITP: msedit -- Adding Microsoft Edit/msedit to Debian. (Rust/MIT)

From	A Johnston <ajohnston54637@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.devel
Subject	Bug#1121214: ITP: msedit -- Adding Microsoft Edit/msedit to Debian. (Rust/MIT)
Date	2025-11-22 19:50 +0100
Message-ID	<LU0Qh-eXwU-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* 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!

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Bug#1121214: ITP: msedit -- Adding Microsoft Edit/msedit to Debian. (Rust/MIT) A Johnston <ajohnston54637@gmail.com> - 2025-11-22 19:50 +0100
  Re: Bug#1121214: ITP: msedit -- Adding Microsoft Edit/msedit to  Debian. (Rust/MIT) A Johnston <ajohnston54637@gmail.com> - 2025-11-23 20:10 +0100
    Re: Bug#1121214: ITP: msedit -- Adding Microsoft Edit/msedit to  Debian. (Rust/MIT) NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> - 2025-11-23 23:50 +0100

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