When MS-DOS 5.0 was launched 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—yet fondly remembered.

This past summer, we saw the launch of Windows Edit , a new version of MS-DOS Editor which runs in the command line and offers support for Unicode. The 300 KB file limit has been removed, which means you can now handle gigabyte-sized files with Edit if desired.

The latest news is that Edit will soon be the default text editor in the 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 and written in the Rust programming language. You don’t have to be running Windows to use the text

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