MS-DOS Editor

MS-DOS Editor
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseJune 1991 (1991-06)
Stable release
2.0.026 / 1995 (1995)
Operating systemMS-DOS, PC DOS, OS/2, Microsoft Windows
PlatformIntel x86, 16-bit
PredecessorEdlin
SuccessorWindows Notepad, Microsoft Edit (see below)
TypeText editor
LicenseSame as Windows
Websitelearn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/edit
Microsoft Edit
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial release19 March 2025 (2025-03-19)[1]
Stable release
1.2.0[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 11 June 2025
Repositoryhttps://github.com/microsoft/edit Edit this on Wikidata
Written inRust
Operating systemWindows, Linux, macOS, BSD
Size250kB[3]
Available in11 languages[4]
List of languages
English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
TypeText editor
LicenseMIT License

MS-DOS Editor, commonly just called edit or edit.com, is a TUI text editor. Originally, it was a 16-bit that shipped with MS-DOS 5.0 and later,[5] as well as all 32-bit x86 versions of Windows. It supersedes edlin, the standard editor in earlier versions of MS-DOS. Originally, EDIT.COM was a stub that ran QBasic in editor mode. Starting with Windows 95, MS-DOS Editor became a standalone program because QBasic didn't ship with Windows. In 2025, Microsoft released a free and open-source remake.[3]

  1. ^ "Initial import · microsoft/edit@f654981". GitHub. Retrieved 2025-05-23.
  2. ^ https://github.com/microsoft/edit/releases/tag/v1.2.0. Retrieved 12 June 2025. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ a b Nguyen, Christopher (2025-05-19). "Edit is now open source". Windows Command Line. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 2025-05-20. Retrieved 2025-05-23.
  4. ^ "edit/src/bin/edit/localization.rs at 7e28e7291ab008688c3ae4263a2051c0d152d185 · microsoft/edit". GitHub. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  5. ^ Wolverton, Van (2003). Running MS-DOS Version 6.22 (20th Anniversary Edition), 6th Revised edition. Microsoft Press. ISBN 0-7356-1812-7.

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