Basic text editor in command prompt? [closed]

Answer 1

vim may be challenging for beginners. For a quick-and-dirty Windows console-mode text editor, I would suggest Kinesics Text Editor.

Answer 2

There is one built into windows 7 in which you can open by clicking the windows and r keys at the same time and then typing edit.com.

I hope this helped

Answer 3

In a pinch, just type 'notepad (filename)' and notepad will pop up with the file you want to edit in it. Otherwise Vim or some such will have to be installed.

Answer 4

I made a simple VIM clone from batch to satisfy your needs.

@echo off
title WinVim
color a
cls
echo WinVim 1.02
echo.
echo To save press CTRL+Z then press enter
echo.
echo Make sure to include extension in file name
set /p name=File Name:
copy con %name%
if exist %name% copy %name% + con

Hope this helps :)

Answer 5

There actually is a basic text editor on Windows. In the command prompt simply type edit, and it should take you to there. Now, someone already mentioned it, but they said it's XP or lower. Actually it works perfectly fine on my Windows 7.

Wikipedia page

Again, I am running Windows 7, so I've no idea if it's still is present on Windows 8.

And as IInspectable pointed out, there's no built in C compilers, which is a disappointment. Oh, well, back to MinGW.

Also, "here" someone mentioned Far Manager, which has ability to edit files, so that's some alternative.

Hope that helps

Answer 6

There is no command based text editors in windows (at least from Windows 7). But you can try the vi windows clone available here : http://www.vim.org/