Editing MS-DOS Editor (section)

{{Short description|Text editor in MS-DOS and Windows 9x}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = MS-DOS Editor
| screenshot             = MSDOS Edit.png
| developer              = [[Microsoft]]
| released               = {{Start date and age|1991|06}}
| latest release version = 2.0.026
| latest release date    = {{Start date and age|1995}}
| latest preview version = 
| latest preview date    = 
| operating system       = [[MS-DOS]], [[IBM PC DOS|PC DOS]], [[OS/2]], [[Microsoft Windows]]
| platform               = [[Intel x86]], 16-bit
| replaces               = [[Edlin]]
| replaced_by            = [[Windows Notepad]], Microsoft Edit (see below)
| genre                  = [[Text editor]]
| license                = Same as Windows
| website                = {{URL|https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/edit}}
}}
{{Infobox software
| title                  = Microsoft Edit
| logo                   = Logo Microsoft Edit.svg
| logo size              = x64px
| developer              = [[Microsoft]]
| released               = {{start date and age|2025|03|19|df=yes}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Initial import · microsoft/edit@f654981 |url=https://github.com/microsoft/edit/commit/f654981a07a1408e370a1b373f612b6bfde5c374 |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=GitHub |language=en}}</ref>
| repo                   = {{wikidata|property|edit|reference|Q134540318|P1324}}
| programming language   = [[Rust (programming language)|Rust]]
| operating system       = [[Windows]], [[Linux]]
| size                   = 250kB<ref name="remake">{{Cite web |last=Nguyen |first=Christopher |date=2025-05-19 |title=Edit is now open source |url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/edit-is-now-open-source/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250520215909/https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/edit-is-now-open-source/ |archive-date=2025-05-20 |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=Windows Command Line |publisher=Microsoft |language=en}}</ref>
| genre                  = [[Text editor]]
| license                = [[MIT License]]
}}
'''MS-DOS Editor''', commonly just called '''edit''' or '''edit.com''', is a [[Text-based user interface|TUI]] [[text editor]]. Originally, it was a 16-bit that shipped with [[MS-DOS]] 5.0 and later,<ref name="RUNNINGMSDOS">{{Cite book|author-last=Wolverton|author-first=Van|title=Running MS-DOS Version 6.22 (20th Anniversary Edition), 6th Revised edition|date=2003|publisher=[[Microsoft Press]]|isbn=0-7356-1812-7}}</ref> as well as all 32-bit x86 versions of Windows. In 2025, Microsoft released a free and open-source remake.<ref name="remake" /> It supersedes [[edlin]], the standard editor in earlier versions of MS-DOS. Originally, <code>EDIT.COM</code> was a stub that ran [[QBasic]] in editor mode. Starting with [[Windows 95]], MS-DOS Editor became a standalone program because QBasic didn't ship with Windows.