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486 points ethanpil | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.194s | 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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Litruv ◴[25 Jun 25 03:07 UTC] No.44373324[source]▶
I think you missed the point of edit.
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seabrookmx ◴[25 Jun 25 16:54 UTC] No.44379436[source]▶
I think you missed the question I was answering in my comment.
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JdeBP ◴[25 Jun 25 20:49 UTC] No.44381677[source]▶
There's an underlying assumption about "target audience for this editor" that you both share, that others, I suspect quite a few others, do not.

For starters, there's your assumption that there is "syntax" to be highlighted. Not every text file is something written in a computer programming language.

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