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What's funny is that this likely irritated one of Microsofts own devs enough that they said 'fuck all of this' and invented the new cli app called Edit.
It's under 200kb and runs as a standalone binary if you want. Also supports mouse input.
Did I mention it's cross platform?
With the tagline:
Just like original Notepad lol
Well, yes, but actually no. It's more like MS-DOS's
EDIT.COM
since it runs in a command line / "DOS" window.In fact, since
EDIT.COM
went through a couple of distinct variants back in the day, you could say that this is the third variant of it.The other two being 1) the BASIC-deactivated side of
QBASIC.EXE
which was an editor and programming language in one, and then 2) a stand-alone, from the ground up, version (with no BASIC to disable) which came along with Win9x / MS-DOS 7.I keep a copy of the latter in my DOSBox config. It's only 70kB.