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.

For millions of users, MS-DOS Editor became their first introduction to "modern" text editing—a stepping stone between the command-line era and the graphical interfaces that would soon dominate.

The app has its origins in a text editor from the 1990s called MS-DOS Editor. This latest version is a remake, so it may not share a single line of code with the original.

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.

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Starfrost was interested in documenting the relationship between DOS 4, MT-DOS, and OS/2, and he was also trying to persuade the Microsoft Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) to release DOS 4 code.

Windows 11 doesn't currently ship with a CLI text editor, but Microsoft has opened a thread on GitHub discussing the idea of adding one in. And it wants your feedback.

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 ...

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