This post covers the best open-source text editor software for your Windows 11/10 PC. There are several good open-source text editors available for the Windows operating system. Choosing the one that ...

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 ...

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. It's ...

Microsoft is updating Notepad again. The latest indignity for the veteran Windows text wrangler? Text formatting.… Windows used to have an editor with formatting functionality, an application called ...

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 ...

Notepad is the default text editor found in Windows computers. Every .txt file is configured to open directly in Notepad. It has paved the way for text editors over quite some time now, in which ...

A new command-line application, Windows Edit, is coming to Windows 11 as part of a bevy of tools aimed at developers and enthusiasts. But is a new tweak to WinGet the real star of the show? It’s hard ...

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 ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

The Registry Editor is a powerful application that allows you to access and edit the configuration settings of the Windows operating system. The Windows Registry is a database containing various ...

It looks the same in every editor which uses monospaced fonts. That's the advantage. If you have 3 editors and use tabs for indentation, you'll probably get 3 different representations of the code.