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Dominant language: Rust
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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133 open issues indexed

Windows 11: installed Edit is shadowed by the inbox System32 edit.exe Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/edit#951 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
[bug]: Cursor misalignment occurs when displaying inline code in Markdown under word wrap Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

microsoft/edit#948 · Opened Sep 6, 2026
edit 2.0.0 / 1.2.1 fails to open files on WinFsp-FUSE mounted drives (e.g. SFTP mounts): ERROR_UNRECOGNIZED_VOLUME (os error 1005) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 75/100

microsoft/edit#947 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 31, 2026
enhancement: improve YAML syntax highlighting Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/edit#946 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
enhancement: add missing common file extensions to language detection Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

microsoft/edit#944 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
feat: add support for SQL syntax highlighting Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/edit#942 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Type ALT or Option to open the menu Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/edit#928 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2026
[feature request] more shortcuts Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

microsoft/edit#904 · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Show and ideally warn when "strange" unicode chars are used like VS Code does. Open

C-task E-help-wanted P-medium

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/edit#896 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Old-school 95/98 DOS 7(.1) EDIT had a mostly unknown '/40' (any number works) parameter that enabled binary-viewed-as-ASCII editing of files Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/edit#894 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 11, 2026
provide a statically linked musl binary for Linux releases Open

E-needs-discussion

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/edit#889 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 4, 2026
Hoist the TUI framework out so it can be re-used easily Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/edit#886 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 2, 2026
Delete Line keyboard shortcut Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

microsoft/edit#885 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2026
Edit is hard to use in Windows containers, now using vim as default text editor Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/edit#874 · 9 comments · Opened Jun 11, 2026
The configuration for global edit is still 1.2.1 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/edit#873 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 10, 2026
Is there documentation or a JSON schema to show what's supported in settings.json / Preferences? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/edit#864 · 9 comments · Opened May 18, 2026
Illegal Instruction Using "sudo edit" Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/edit#861 · 6 comments · Opened May 13, 2026
crates.io package still on 1.2.1 Open

C-bug P-high

microsoft/edit#855 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 6, 2026
Feature Request: Add right-click context menu for selected text Open

C-feature E-help-wanted P-low

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/edit#854 · Opened May 6, 2026
Bug in undo/redo with additional new lines Open

C-bug E-help-wanted P-medium

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/edit#834 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 29, 2026
[Installation] Winget package path includes version number, causing PATH conflicts and update breakage Open

C-task E-help-wanted P-medium

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/edit#829 · 11 comments · 16 reactions · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Shortcut for the lower statusbar Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/edit#828 · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Feature Request: macOS CMD key support as alternative to CTRL shortcuts Open

C-task E-help-wanted P-medium

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/edit#827 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Ctrl+q doesn't exit file picker Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

microsoft/edit#826 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Persistent editor settings and customizable keybindings Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/edit#803 · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 18, 2026
Highlight menu items on hover Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/edit#798 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 13, 2026
[2.0] syntax highlighting should not apply to selected text Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/edit#788 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 31, 2026
[Feature Proposal] Toggleable File Explorer & Opt-In AI Assistant (via C ABI Plugin) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/edit#781 · Opened Mar 27, 2026
[Alt] + [Leftarrow] at EOF breaks cursor position when word wrap is active, potential freeze Open

C-bug P-high

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/edit#778 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 25, 2026
Pasted code shifted and unusable Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/edit#771 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 5, 2026
Scrolling during mouse selection should extend the select region Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/edit#768 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 22, 2026
Add key binding for ALT + ` (~) to cycle through open files Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/edit#767 · Opened Feb 21, 2026
Make Alt Key "Sticky" for Menu Commands Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/edit#758 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Mention F10 in the menu to make this feature visible Open

E-needs-discussion

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/edit#732 · 15 comments · Opened Jan 2, 2026
Mouse scroll doesn't work in "encoding" and "open file" menus when file is open Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/edit#725 · Opened Dec 16, 2025
cargo binstall support Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/edit#719 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 6, 2025
Text cannot be deleted properly when using Microsoft Pinyin IME (and other CJK IMEs) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/edit#711 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 24, 2025
make Edit available via packages.microsoft.com Open

E-needs-discussion

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/edit#710 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 22, 2025
Add Shift+Ctrl+Home and Shift+Ctrl+End support Open

C-task E-help-wanted P-medium

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/edit#687 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2025
Feature request: open file at position supports negative index Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/edit#684 · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 29, 2025
Subscribe to Contour color palette update notifications Open

C-task E-help-wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

microsoft/edit#677 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 22, 2025
Lost contains (about 1kb, 1024 bytes length) randomly in EOF Open

C-bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/edit#675 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 20, 2025
Important Feature Request: Ask if changes should be saved when exiting from EDIT to prevent loss of changes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

microsoft/edit#665 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 12, 2025
Windows Update vs. WinGet distribution mechanism Open

E-needs-discussion

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/edit#664 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 12, 2025
Redox OS Port: Refcell already borrowed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/edit#660 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 9, 2025
Add clickable hyperlinks when URLs are on screen Open

C-feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/edit#659 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 8, 2025
Provide a bash script to install (download and add to PATH) from latest release Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/edit#653 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 3, 2025
ZWJ sequence emoji in filename titles breaks rendering on Terminal.app Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/edit#650 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 30, 2025
Emoji breaks cursor position and blocks backspace Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/edit#647 · 9 comments · Opened Sep 24, 2025
`Alt+Shift+P` causes indefinite freeze (DCS start) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/edit#642 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 9, 2025

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