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 ...

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

Fresh: a feature-packed, IDE-like terminal editor with tabs, markdown preview, syntax highlighting, and Git. Micro: a simple, Nano-like editor with modern keybindings, mouse support, and built-in ...

Fresh is a new take on the simple text editor. Fresh is what nano would be with mouse support. Fresh is free to use on Linux and MacOS. I've been a regular user of the nano text editor since its ...

Following the deprecation of WordPad, Microsoft has been adding a lot of features to Notepad, which has led to criticism from users who prefer Notepad for its no-frills simplicity. If you’re such a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Time to use something simpler!