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486 points ethanpil | 3 comments | 25 Jun 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.254s | source
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pxc ◴[25 Jun 25 01:20 UTC] No.44372814[source]▶
I used to recommend micro[1] to people like those in the target audience of this editor. I wonder if that should change or not.

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1: https://micro-editor.github.io/

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seabrookmx ◴[25 Jun 25 02:49 UTC] No.44373245[source]▶
IMO it should not.

`edit` doesn't even support syntax highlighting (atleast, out of the box when I tried it).

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1. _flux ◴[25 Jun 25 06:49 UTC] No.44374287[source]▶
It might in the future, though, as the main developer has opened an issue about it: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/issues/18

The trick is doing it while keeping the binary size small, so tree sitter is not an option.

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2. ComputerGuru ◴[25 Jun 25 16:31 UTC] No.44379135[source]▶
Vim (and so many other editors, too) supported syntax highlighting for decades before TreeSitter even existed. Let’s not act as if this is a novel challenge.
3. kasajian ◴[26 Jun 25 16:59 UTC] No.44389168[source]▶
why would the binary size be big to support this? Scintilla has been doing syntax color for decades -- it's pretty small.