Microsoft has introduced a native command-line text editor called Edit in Windows 11 and it's now rolling out to everyone.

At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft open sourced a number of apps and tools, including a new command-line text editor for Windows called Edit. Open source software may not earn the company direct ...

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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 ...

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 a blank terminal, type “calcurse” and press Enter. The Calcurse interface is split into three panels: Appointments, Calendar, and To-Do. You use arrow keys to jump around the calendar dates, which ...

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 ...

Following the deprecation of WordPad, Microsoft has been adding a lot of features to Notepad, which has led to criticism from users who prefer Notepad for its no-frills simplicity. If you’re such a ...

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 ...