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There's no shortage of text editors on Linux, but Helix Editor may just be the best one out there. Here's why.

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built ...

For too long, I, like many developers, believed that an over-engineered IDE was a necessity for professional coding. However, ...

At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft open sourced a number of apps and tools, including a new command-line text editor for Windows called Edit. Open source software may not earn the company direct ...

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 ...

Edit on Windows is part of new improvements to the dev experience. Edit on Windows is part of new improvements to the dev experience. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering ...

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.