When MS-DOS 5.0 was released in 1991, one of its major innovations was the MS-DOS Editor, a classic text editor that quickly became popular with users. These days it’s old news, but it’s remembered fondly.
Last summer we saw the launch of Windows Edit, a new version of MS-DOS Editor that runs on the command line and supports Unicode. The 300KB file limit has been removed, meaning you can now handle gigabyte-sized files with Edit if you want.
The latest news is that Edit will soon be the default text editor in Windows 11 Command Prompt, as noted by Windows Latest. If you want to try Edit now, you can download the program via GitHub.
Edit is open source software written in the Rust programming language. You don’t need to be running Windows to use the text editor; It works equally well on macOS and Linux.
This article was originally published on our sister publication PC för Alla and has been translated and localized from Swedish.
