If you do not like Notepad or Notepad++, then you can use the new editing application that comes with the old DOS design with ASCII!
They say on the official microsoft dev blog at May 19th, 2025:
Edit is a new command-line text editor in Windows. Edit is open source, so you can build the code or install the latest version from GitHub!
This CLI text editor will be available to preview in the Windows Insider Program in the coming months. After that, it will ship as part of Windows 11!
The news comes from development team. They comes with an released version last 3 weeks ago and last changes on development comes 3 days ago !!!
Use the widget tool to install:
winget install Microsoft.Edit
Found Edit [Microsoft.Edit] Version 1.2.0
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://github.com/microsoft/edit/releases/download/v1.2.0/edit-1.2.0-x86_64-windows.zip
██████████████████████████████ 929 KB / 929 KB
Successfully verified installer hash
Extracting archive...
Successfully extracted archive
Starting package install...
Path environment variable modified; restart your shell to use the new value.
Command line alias added: "edit"
Successfully installed
Just use the
edit command to run it.
