https://ivanzalac.from.hr/tags/editor/Recent content in Editor on Ivan Žalac's Tech BlogHugoen-usIvan ŽalacThu, 22 May 2025 13:30:00 +0200https://ivanzalac.from.hr/posts/msedit/Thu, 22 May 2025 13:30:00 +0200https://ivanzalac.from.hr/posts/msedit/<h2 id="30-years-later-edit-is-back">30 years later, edit is back</h2> <p>Back in 1991, Microsoft released MS-DOS 5.0 - one of the most important releases of that OS ever, and the first one to receive a retail release. Driven by the growing OS competition on the PC platform at that time - such as DR-DOS - MS-DOS 5.0 was packed with tons of new features, such as improved memory and disk management, and - the subject of this topic - new MS-DOS Editor, also known as <code>edit</code>. It was the first full-screen editor shipped with MS-DOS, as previous versions only had a rudimentary <code>edlin</code> line editor. Edit was originally the editing component of the QBasic IDE/interpreter. However, QBasic and most other DOS tools were discontinued with the release of Windows 95 - edit remained, but was decoupled from QBasic and updated with some new features. It remained like that, unchanged, all the way until Windows 10 when it was finally removed - although in the last few releases of Windows, it was only available on the 32-bit versions due to compatibility issues.</p>