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486 points ethanpil | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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pulkitsh1234 ◴[25 Jun 25 07:30 UTC] No.44374546[source]▶
Geniunely curious, how projects like these get approved in an org at the scale of Microsoft? Is this like a side project by some devs or part of some product roadmap? How did they convince the leadership to spend time on this?
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dark-star ◴[25 Jun 25 07:45 UTC] No.44374646[source]▶
As they explained, they needed a text editor that works in a command line (for Windows Core server installs), works across SSH (because for a while now Windows included an SSH Server so you can completely manage it through SSH), and can be used by non-vi-experienced Windows administrators (i.e. a modeless editor).
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llarsson ◴[25 Jun 25 07:53 UTC] No.44374677[source]▶
Telling people to use nano would of course have been next to impossible. Much easier to rewrite a DOS-era editor in Rust, naturally.
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1. dark-star ◴[25 Jun 25 08:02 UTC] No.44374746[source]▶
does nano support mouse usage? It doesn't seem to work for me (but maybe it just needs to be enabled somewhere)

I guess they thought that inheriting 25 years of C code was more trouble than designing a new editor from scratch. But you'd have to ask the devs why they decided to go down that route

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2. Elfener ◴[25 Jun 25 09:17 UTC] No.44375200[source]▶
> does nano support mouse usage?

Yes, but you have to put `set mouse` into your nanorc.