Microsoft just released ‘Edit’ as a new command-line text editor, which will soon be a built-in Windows application. It’s inspired by the MS-DOS Edit program from the 1990s, and it’s already ...

TL;DR: Microsoft is ushering in a lightweight text editor for Windows 11 called Edit, which it says pays homage to the classic MS-DOS Editor experience, but with a suitably modern interface. It's ...

At the Microsoft Build conference this year, the company announced it will include a command-line text editor with Windows! This was followed up in a Windows blog post. We are introducing a ...

Microsoft is preparing to bring a new command-line text editor called Edit to Windows 11, which is made for users who want a simple and lightweight tool for editing text files. Edit is now available ...

Microsoft is updating Notepad again. The latest indignity for the veteran Windows text wrangler? Text formatting.… Windows used to have an editor with formatting functionality, an application called ...

Editor's take: Back in the DOS days, real PC users wrote their textual tomes in the official MS-DOS Editor – I certainly did. These days, developers offer a confusing array of text editors, so ...

Aside from OS wars, text editors are one of the most religiously debated topics on the net. There are some who say that we don't need any new text editors, but I disagree, there's always room to ...

WordPad, a Windows rich editing app that has been a mainstay of the platform since Windows 95, is on its way out. Microsoft has marked it for deprecation, a death knell that signals that it will be ...

If you think you can't press backspace while typing in vim's insert mode, then you are hating and dismissing a strawman not a text editor. So guess what I just found out. If you're editing text in a ...

The primary reason I learned and adapted to vi was because it was ubiquitous... not because I thought it was the best. Might have been true 5-10 years ago, but I'd argue against learning vi(m) today ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...