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stackexchange.com
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What were the most popular text editors for MS-DOS in the 1980s?
Lexicon was a text editor / word processor MS-DOS program that was extremely popular in the Soviet Union and Russia at the end of 1980s and in 1990s. Some estimate that Lexicon was illegally installed on 95% of all Russian PCs.
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wikipedia.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe
CompuServe - Wikipedia
FILe Generator and Editor (FILGE) was a command-oriented text editor created by CompuServe in the early 1970s. Later it was replaced by screen-oriented WYSIWYG editors.
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Comparison of text editors - Wikipedia
MDI overlappable windows Whether each open document gets its own fully movable window inside the editor environment. MDI tabbed document interface Whether multiple documents can be viewed as tabs in a single window. MDI window splitting Whether supports splitting the application window to show multiple documents (non-overlapping windows).
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notepad-plus-plus.org
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
Notepad++
Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GNU General Public License. Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size.
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ycombinator.com
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Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison | Hacker News
A text editor would need to directly support managing the registry, but you can read/write/search/do terminally-stuff to the registry via PowerShell. The term we're looking for is a PSProvider of which there are many.
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editpadlite.com
https://www.editpadlite.com/
EditPad® Lite: Free Text Editor for Windows
EditPad Lite is a compact general-purpose text editor. Use EditPad Lite to easily edit any kind of plain text file. EditPad Lite has all the essential features to make text editing a breeze: Large file and long line support. Full Unicode support, including complex scripts and right-to-left scripts.
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textpad.com
https://www.textpad.com/
TextPad - the text editor for Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11
TextPad ® is a powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files. Easy to use, with all the features a power user requires. More ... WildEdit ® is an interactive tool for power users to make the same edits to a set of plain text files in a folder hierarchy. More ...
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editpadlite.com
https://www.editpadlite.com/download.html
Windows Text Editor Free Download - EditPad Lite
EditPad Lite is free for personal use only. If you use EditPad Lite at home or at school for purposes that don’t generate money, you can download the free version of EditPad Lite without any kind of payment or registration. Download EditPad Lite (18 MB). Version 8.6.0, released 29 October 2025.
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sublimetext.com
https://www.sublimetext.com/
Sublime Text - Text Editing, Done Right
Sublime Text can now utilize your GPU on Linux, Mac and Windows when rendering the interface. This results in a fluid UI all the way up to 8K resolutions, all while using less power than before.
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geany.org
https://www.geany.org/
Home | Geany
Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS, is translated into over 40 languages, and has built-in support for more than 50 programming languages.