Notepad on Windows 11 is no longer the lightweight utility it once was. Learn how to replace Notepad with Microsoft Edit on Windows 11.

"Your essential text editor, elevated," says Microsoft when you open one of the world's once simplest text editors, Notepad, ...

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 ...

Appy Text is a plain text editor for Windows 10 that offers a host of features in a lightweight package. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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 ...

Microsoft is reportedly expanding Notepad on Windows 11 with Copilot-powered text streaming and richer Markdown support, ...

Aside from OS wars, text editors are one of the most religiously debated topics on the net. There are some who say that we don't need any new text editors, but I disagree, there's always room to ...

TL;DR: Microsoft's Notepad, a simple text editor, is introducing a new AI 'Rewrite' feature in version 11.2410.15.0 for Windows Insiders on Windows 11. This feature allows users to rephrase sentences, ...

Microsoft is preparing to bring a new command-line text editor called Edit to Windows 11, which is made for users who want a simple and lightweight tool for editing text files. Edit is now available ...

More Markdown features are coming to Notepad.

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 ...

I'm normally a mac user. On the mac side we have available a great text editor for programmers called TextWrangler. It is free (with a pay-for bigger brother), it does all the proper colouring of text ...