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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

Holding Esc key causes vt-sequences to leak Open

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

microsoft/edit#641 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 9, 2025
Crash on launch under `screen` ... sometimes Open

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

microsoft/edit#640 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 8, 2025
Unable to build on darwin due to LLVM object discrepancy Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/edit#631 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 31, 2025
Broken on Linux console Open

C-task E-help-wanted

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

microsoft/edit#621 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 23, 2025
[Feature] Have `Alt+F: bindings` on the top right of the screen (when it fits) Open

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

microsoft/edit#615 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 15, 2025
[bug] with unsaved changes, press ctrl+f, ctrl+q, Esc, Esc doesn't close the search bar as it should. Open

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

microsoft/edit#614 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 15, 2025
Addition of new hotkeys - Feature request Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/edit#609 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 14, 2025
Mouse-down + scrolling should create a selection that starts at the mouse-down location Open

C-bug P-low

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

microsoft/edit#608 · Opened Aug 13, 2025
Add support for split views Open

C-feature

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

microsoft/edit#606 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 12, 2025
Add a tab row and allow reordering tabs Open

C-feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/edit#605 · Opened Aug 12, 2025
Shit+selection does not work under rxvt-unicode Open

C-task

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/edit#600 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 5, 2025
cannot copy text on my debian sys Open

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

microsoft/edit#595 · Opened Jul 31, 2025
Add command-line options to initialize settings on statusbar Open

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

microsoft/edit#589 · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 28, 2025
[BUG] Previous scroll position lost when switching documents Open

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

microsoft/edit#586 · Opened Jul 22, 2025
[Feature] Please add FreeBSD package build in release Open

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

microsoft/edit#584 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 18, 2025
Release Linux standalone binaries, also macOS binaries Open

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

microsoft/edit#581 · 4 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Jul 16, 2025
[Bug] Word wrap moves the cursor to another line Open

C-bug P-medium

microsoft/edit#579 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 14, 2025
[bug] edit does not respect terminal color scheme on various terminal applications Open

C-bug E-help-wanted

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

microsoft/edit#575 · 11 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 10, 2025
Why tar.zst file over gzip compression in the Linux release? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/edit#571 · 17 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 9, 2025
Build MS Edit for Termux Open

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

microsoft/edit#570 · 3 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jul 8, 2025
Feature request: multi cursor support Open

C-feature

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

microsoft/edit#565 · 15 reactions · Opened Jul 6, 2025
In VSCode, edit cannot use any of the keys at the top Open

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

microsoft/edit#562 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 6, 2025
Feature request: possibility to open a folder Open

C-feature

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

microsoft/edit#543 · 3 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jun 30, 2025
[feature] Add nano's "ALT+<" and "ALT+>" key-bindings for file switching. Open

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

microsoft/edit#530 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 26, 2025
Terminal transparency Open

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

microsoft/edit#525 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 25, 2025
Homebrew support Open

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

microsoft/edit#506 · 16 comments · 78 reactions · Opened Jun 21, 2025
A way to type paths using Environment Variables in the open menu Open

C-task E-help-wanted

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

microsoft/edit#499 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 19, 2025
Automatically Add Closing Parentheses, Braces, Brackets Open

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

microsoft/edit#488 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 16, 2025
CTRL+F3 to search next occurrence of "current selection" and SHIFT.. Open

C-task E-help-wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

microsoft/edit#482 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 14, 2025
Bug: Word Wrap feature doesn't function well with tabs on the line Open

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

microsoft/edit#479 · Opened Jun 13, 2025
Edit in Terminal opens in separate window, not in Terminal Open

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

microsoft/edit#474 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 12, 2025
Detect if bracketed pastes match the internal clipboard contents Open

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

microsoft/edit#471 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 12, 2025
Strange artifact on screen when using a default editor for git Open

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

microsoft/edit#462 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 11, 2025
Setting Cursor Type Open

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

microsoft/edit#452 · 8 reactions · Opened Jun 10, 2025
Detect terminal's or file's text encoding Open

C-task

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

microsoft/edit#449 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 9, 2025
Hardcoded .so suffix breaks dynamic ICU loading on macOS Open

C-task E-help-wanted

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

microsoft/edit#443 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 8, 2025
F1 - inline Help: more help and more Keys - less mouse - PLEASE! Open

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

microsoft/edit#391 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 2, 2025
Alt key no longer works in tmux Open

E-help-wanted

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

microsoft/edit#390 · Opened Jun 2, 2025
Packaging: don't include `pdb` Open

C-task E-help-wanted

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

microsoft/edit#383 · 4 reactions · Opened May 31, 2025
Add edit to the Linux repos... Open

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

microsoft/edit#375 · 32 comments · 26 reactions · Opened May 30, 2025
Assertion fails when passing `C:` as command line argument Open

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

microsoft/edit#367 · 2 reactions · Opened May 30, 2025
Feature: Add total numbe of lines to `Statusbar` Open

E-needs-discussion

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

microsoft/edit#338 · 5 comments · 5 reactions · Opened May 28, 2025
Input system overhaul Open

C-feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/edit#332 · 5 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 28, 2025
Feature: Add persistence to "Spaces/Tab" option per-filetype Open

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

microsoft/edit#323 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 27, 2025
"Find" options symbols Open

C-task

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

microsoft/edit#317 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 27, 2025
Is there a road map, a release schedule, prioritised backlog Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/edit#294 · 5 comments · 4 reactions · Opened May 26, 2025
Can't load entire file in editor Open

C-bug P-medium

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

microsoft/edit#293 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 26, 2025
Add recently opened files to the Document Picker Open

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

microsoft/edit#287 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 26, 2025
The `Unsaved Changes` window behaves differently under the Exit and the Close operation. Open

C-bug E-help-wanted P-medium

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

microsoft/edit#271 · 4 comments · Opened May 25, 2025
Random letters are inserted on startup Open

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

microsoft/edit#243 · 11 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 23, 2025

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