What Is Microsoft Edit? Microsoft announced its “new command-line text editor in Windows” in a 2025 blog post that also mentioned its open-source license.

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.

Home > Computing Microsoft to Add Lightweight Command-Line Text Editor 'Edit' to Windows 11 Edit is made for users who want a minimal tool that works entirely within Terminal.

If you’re such a user, you might be interested to know that Microsoft is bringing a new minimalist text editor to Windows 11—one that runs in the Command Prompt.

At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft announced Edit, a new open-source command-line text editor, to be distributed in the future as part of Windows 11. Edit aims to provide a lightweight native ...

Microsoft is reviving the classic MS-DOS Edit utility with a new open-source text editor built for Windows 11. Microsoft developers designed it to provide a native command-line interface (CLI) option.

Windows 11 doesn't currently ship with a CLI text editor, but Microsoft has opened a thread on GitHub discussing the idea of adding one in. And it wants your feedback.