Microsoft needed a CLI text editor for 64-bit versions of Windows, so it went out and built one. It's not built-in yet, but you can try it out right now.

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.

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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.

Hate Notepad in Windows 11 because Microsoft keeps adding features to the app, bloating it up? You might like the new 'Edit' app that's in the works now.

Microsoft is adding text formatting support to Notepad. You’ll be able to use bold and italic options, alongside hyperlinks and Markdown support.

Introduced alongside Windows 95, WordPad offered a built-in rich text editor for users unwilling to pay for a full Microsoft Office license. It filled a middle ground between Word and Notepad.

Microsoft has created its own command line text editor. Edit on Windows is similar to vim, allowing developers to edit files directly in the command line.

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If you'd rather directly paste the copied text elsewhere as purely plain text, use the key combination Command-Option-Shift-V and it will be automatically stripped of any formatting.

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