MS-DOS Editor
| MS-DOS Editor | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Developer | Microsoft |
| Release | June 1991 |
| Stable release | 2.0.026
/ 1995 |
| Operating system | MS-DOS, PC DOS, OS/2, Microsoft Windows |
| Platform | Intel x86, 16-bit |
| Predecessor | Edlin |
| Successor | Windows Notepad, Microsoft Edit (see below) |
| Type | Text editor |
| License | Same as Windows |
| Website | learn |
| Microsoft Edit | |
|---|---|
 | |
 | |
| Developer | Microsoft |
| Release | 19 March 2025 |
| Stable release | 2.0.0 
/ 28 April 2026 |
| Written in | Rust |
| Operating system | Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD |
| Size | 146kB |
| Available in | 30 languages |
List of languages English, Arabic, Bengali, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Swedish, Turkmen, Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional) | |
| Type | Text editor |
| License | MIT License |
| Repository | https://github.com/microsoft/edit |
MS-DOS Editor, commonly just called edit or edit.com, is a TUI text editor. Originally, it was a 16-bit application that shipped with MS-DOS 5.0 and later, 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 did not ship with Windows. In 2025, Microsoft released a free and open-source remake.