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 ...

Windows keeps getting newer features and apps, but Notepad is still the best program it offers thanks to how little bloatware ...

Terminal addicts, throw your thoughts in the ring, it might make your life better. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Appy Text is a plain text editor for Windows 10 that offers a host of features in a lightweight package. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Frankly I dislike most of the editors posted here. I used to use ConTEXT, but I ended up disliking it for reasons I cannot remember now. Prior to that I used UltraEdit and I was somewhat okay with ...

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 ...

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 ...