I expect the rate of releases to rise quadratically from now on. 1.1e19.0 should be out in a few weeks. To Linux package maintainers: We now added an official recommendation for package names to our README. Changes. The Open/Save file dialog now features filename autocompletion (#185, #464) (thanks @haoruilee), A couple of Linux distributions now package Edit, including Arch Linux, and Manjaro, so if you use one of those, you can install it properly. To run Edit on Ubuntu you can download the latest binary from the project GitHub releases page (be sure to select the correct one for your architecture), extract the package, cd into the extracted folder , In June 2025, Microsoft unveiled Edit, a modern open-source remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor that first shipped with MS-DOS 5.0 in 1991. Written entirely in Rust and released under the permissive MIT license, Edit delivers the familiar full-screen text-editing experience to Windows, macOS, and—as a surprising twist—Linux., Microsoft Edit is a new command-line editor for Windows and Linux. Currently, you cannot install Microsoft Edit using apt-get on Ubuntu, so you must either download the latest version from GitHub or install it via snap. I will also briefly compare Microsoft Edit with GNU nano, the standard text editor in the Linux terminal., Users can download the latest binary from the GitHub releases page and run it through the terminal: Download the latest release from the link. Extract the package. Open a terminal and navigate to the extracted folder. Run Edit using the command ./edit. This approach allows users to experiment with the editor and determine if it fits into their , Microsoft has revived its classic MS-DOS text editor as a cross-platform tool called “Edit,” now compatible with Linux and macOS… Microsoft has revived its classic MS-DOS text editor as a cross-platform tool called “Edit,” now compatible with Linux and macOS, marking a surprising collaboration between legacy and modern systems..