I have to look at HTML and C++ source files occasionally on my laptop and don't want to install Visual Studio. Word and Notepad don't do syntax highlighting. So what's the best free-as-in-beer text ...

I use Windows Notepad the way most people do: paste something in, strip out weird formatting, glance at a config file, and close it. That's the deal. It's not glamorous, but for years it's been ...

It's called Edit and it's going to be the default text editor in Windows 11's Command Prompt. When MS-DOS 5.0 was launched in 1991, one of its major innovations was the MS-DOS Editor, a classic text ...

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 ...

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 ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. If you're one of those people who's lamenting the loss of a super-streamlined text editor in Windows 11 - now Microsoft has binned WordPad, and turned ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Simple text editors offer a way to edit or write plain text without fancy formatting or other features usually associated with word processors. Generally ...

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 ...