Port request for MS Edit

[jscipione]

Has anybody tried to port Microsoft Edit to Haiku yet?

MIT licensed and written in Rust. Not to be confused with the 16-bit DOS application of the same name.

GitHub - microsoft/edit: We all edit.

[daniel0366]

We mentioned this earlier.

Software port suggestions

Microsoft recently released a new TUI text editor closely inspired by EDIT.COM: There’s a blog post with more details. What’s interesting about this (aside from the app’s features and design) is that it is a Rust program with zero third-party crates. This may be a near-ideal program for anyone interested in porting and packaging a Rust program to Haiku for the first time.

The problem is we have to update the Rust for Haiku in order to port MS Edit. More info can be seen in this topic.

[jscipione]

@daniel0366

The problem is we have to update the Rust for Haiku in order to port MS Edit. More info can be seen in this topic.

Thank you, I suspected as much. The Edit app dev said that the Rust stable build was missing some features he needed.

[PulkoMandy]

On the other hand, the original MS-DOS EDIT will run just fine in Haiku’s Terminal thanks to dosemu (in nightlies only):

Playground

I’m porting dosemu to Haiku. Unfortunately this will have to wait until beta 6 (needs some missing features in beta 5, and also currently triggers a KDL in some cases). It allows to run DOS apps almost natively, a bit similar to what Wine does for Windows. So here is Microsoft QBasic running in Haiku terminal [screenshot1] There is also SDL support if you need to run things with a graphical display (it may be possible to write a GUI for it that doesn’t go through SDL and uses a nati…

(MS-DOS EDIt is just a thin wrapper around QBASIC, starting it with a command line switch to disable all the BASIC and keep only the text editor)