Basic text editor in command prompt? [closed]

Answer 1

There is also a port of nano for windows, which is more more akin to notepad.exe than vim is

https://www.nano-editor.org/dist/win32-support/

Get the WINNT zip. Tested in Windows 7 works as expected

Answer 2

I also wondered what had happened to the text editor in console mode in windows. I remembered the famous mc from Linux. Of course, it's available for Windows!

GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software. It's a feature rich full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees, search for files and run commands in the subshell. Internal viewer and editor are included.

Midnight Commander is based on versatile text interfaces, such as Ncurses or S-Lang, which allows it to work on a regular console, inside an X Window terminal, over SSH connections and all kinds of remote shells.

As mentioned somewhere there are also FAR Manager

Answer 3

I want to add that it is very strange to introduce Core and Nano servers without native console full-featured editor. Like others I`ll recommend to use vim or nano. But my suggestion is to install it via OneGet (require WMF5)! They both are presented in Chocolatey repository so installation is simple and fast:

PS C:> Find-Package -Name vim | Format-Table -AutoSize
Name Version Status    ProviderName Source     Summary
---- ------- ------    ------------ ------     -------
vim  7.4.638 Available Chocolatey   chocolatey Vim is an advanced text editor...


PS C:> Install-Package vim

Answer 4

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/

You are Wrong! If you are using Windows 7, you can using this command:

copy con [filename.???]

Or if you using Windows XP or lower, use (is have a DOS GUI):

edit

Any comment?

Answer 5

The standard text editor in windows is notepad. There are no built-in command line editors.

Windows does not ship a C or C++ compiler. The .NET framework comes with several compilers, though: csc.exe (C# compiler), vbc.exe (VB.NET compiler), jsc.exe (JavaScript compiler).

If you want a free alternative you can download Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop that comes with an optimizing C/C++ compiler (cl.exe).

Answer 6

You can install vim/vi for windows and set windows PATH variable and open it in command line.