Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu

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  1. edit

    We all edit.

    Run that in a directory to open Edit against the files in that directory.

    More notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/21/edit-is-now-open-sourc... - and a new TIL on publishing to the GitHub Container Registry here: https://til.simonwillison.net/github/container-registry

    You can also compile directly from source on macOS - instructions here, I've not tried this yet: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/blob/main/README.md#build-...

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  3. caskaydia-cove

    Caskaydia Cove is a fork of the Cascadia Code typeface with the RFN (Reserved Font Name) removed, plus small adjustments to conform to the Google Fonts spec.

  4. maple-font

    Maple Mono: Open source monospace font with round corner, ligatures and Nerd-Font icons for IDE and terminal, fine-grained customization options. 带连字和控制台图标的圆角等宽字体,中英文宽度完美2:1,细粒度的自定义选项

  5. container

    A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.

    I did have to resize my terminal for this to work, but that could be a terminal emulator issue.

    [1] https://github.com/apple/container

  6. awesome-cli-apps

    🖥 📊 🕹 🛠 A curated list of command line apps

    The term CLI has just come to mean "in a terminal" for a certain subculture, e.g. https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps

    People do know the technical difference, it's just a shorthand

  7. med

    Micro Emacs in D

    Too heavy.

    MicroEmacs is small and lightweight. I port it to whatever machine I'm using, and it works nicely in a remote tty window. It doesn't need a customization language, as I just change the source code.

    Recently, I added color syntax highlighting to it, and support for unicode characters.

    https://github.com/DigitalMars/med

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