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EDIT.EXE is pretty intuitive. Pity that it was removed from Windows eventually.

• eismcc 5y ago
  At point while on the Windows kernel team, I was working on a port of edit.exe but when I left the team, development stopped. I was initially going for a identical replacement with a replica menu system but behind able to handle large files, modern capabilities.
  • jimmygrapes 5y ago
    edit.com I thought it was
    • Koshkin 5y ago
      Less than 64K in size, unheard of now.
    • eismcc 5y ago
      Yes, that’s why it needed a rewrite. Particularly in terms of handling large files.
• rashil2000 5y ago
  Thankfully, the author of Yori[0] shell has made a modern port of EDIT called, well, Yedit[1]. [0]: http://www.malsmith.net/yori/ http://www.malsmith.net/yori/ [1]: https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2021/03/03/yedit-the-missing-edit-com-replacement-for-modern-windows/ https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2021/03/03/yedit-the-miss...