Some text editors and word processors have stood the test of time, thanks to unique features, nostalgia from the original users, or some combination of both. I wanted to try revisiting some of those ...

Fast, compact, useful? Who are you, and what did you do with Windows? Build Microsoft has brought back an old favorite to the Windows command line interface: Edit, a ...

Located in C:\Windows\System32 folder, this Editor has all the features as Notepad, and more! With it, you can also work with multiple text files, change background colors, change the color of the ...

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 ...

I never learned the vi cluster because I didn't need to. By the time I was really using vim (late 90s), it had already been updated to understand cursor keys. And Nethack, the other program that would ...

VZ Editor, a popular text editor for MS-DOS, has been made open source 30 years after its last update, and the source code and image files have been made public on GitHub. VZ Editor was released in ...

When MS-DOS 5.0 was released in 1991, one of the big innovations was the MS-DOS Editor, a classic text editor that quickly became popular with users. Now, Microsoft has developed a new version of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Today, Microsoft has launched MS-DOS Mobile, a new OS designed especially for Lumia smartphones.

Nano/pico pretty much scratches all the itches for a basic user interface for text. It's not like I need to create a functional operating system within EMACS and who the heck remembers to ESC ESC :wq!