Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built ...

There are numerous occasions when I felt like deleting a whole column from a text. One can, go to each line and delete the redundant piece of text, but this process can become a bit jarring if you ...

I am writing a simple text editor in C and ncurses, mostly to learn the language. I can detect normal key presses, but not arrow keys. The function I would normally use is getch(). But when I run my ...

Notepad is the default text editor found in Windows computers. Every .txt file is configured to open directly in Notepad. It has paved the way for text editors over quite some time now, in which ...

When MS-DOS 5.0 was launched in 1991, one of its major innovations was the MS-DOS Editor, a classic text editor that quickly became popular with users. These days, it’s old news—yet fondly remembered.