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Microsoft’s Edit on Windows is a new command-line text editor

Summary by The Verge
Microsoft has created its own command line text editor. Edit on Windows is similar to vim, allowing developers to edit files directly in the command line.

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Edit is a command-line text editor, in short an old-fashioned text editor, such as Vim or nano. It will be available with Windows 11. To use it, you just need to type edit in the command line. It is very light: -250 KB. When developers want light, they can, the proof! It supports the mouse. This is a beautiful function that is missing in other equivalent tools. You can open several files at the same time. Practical!It proposes a search / replace…

With Edit, Microsoft has introduced a new command-line text editor for Windows. The CLI text editor Edit is open source and is expected to be available as a preview soon as part of the Windows insider program. Edit is a small, lightweight text editor with less than 250 KByte. Microsoft gives as reason for the new development that there is a need for a standard CLI text editor for 64-bit versions of Windows

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The Verge broke the news in United States on Monday, May 19, 2025.
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