This post covers the best open-source text editor software for your Windows 11/10 PC. There are several good open-source text editors available for the Windows operating system. Choosing the one that ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Windows 11, you can use the Microsoft Edit tool to work with text files while in Command Prompt or PowerShell without having to switch applications, and in this guide, I'll show you everything you ...

Edit on Windows is part of new improvements to the dev experience. Edit on Windows is part of new improvements to the dev experience. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering ...

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 ...

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built ...

In brief: Notepad didn't change much in the first few decades following its debut in 1983. However, Microsoft has added several significant features to the cleartext editor in the years since Windows ...