Comments on: Wanted: Console Text Editor for Windows https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/02/15/wanted-console-text-editor-for-windows/ Fun with Virtualization Sat, 28 Jun 2025 09:52:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Malcolm https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/02/15/wanted-console-text-editor-for-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-345340 Sat, 09 Dec 2023 01:31:37 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8120#comment-345340 Might interest readers here: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440

]]> By: David Bakin https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/02/15/wanted-console-text-editor-for-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-323623 Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:56:46 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8120#comment-323623 Mentioned earlier here Epsilon is the way to go. Emacs concepts and keystrokes (fully programmable though in a C dialect, not elisp) – it has worked great in console windows on Windows for 20+ years. It’s also really compact and has always been extremely _fast_. And back then Emacs on Windows was an enormous pig which, when it worked correctly – and it frequentl didn’t – was slower than molasses in winter.

]]> By: lanch https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/02/15/wanted-console-text-editor-for-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-322656 Tue, 21 Feb 2023 09:30:57 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8120#comment-322656 About the X2 Programmers Editor I’ve used this for donkeys years! At http://tangbu.com/ a 64-bit version 2.21.2 was released Oct 20 2021. Extract the files from the exe, and only needs x64.exe, xwutils64.dll, and (for F1 Help) x.hlp (from xwnt.zip) to make this editor portable.

]]> By: Dan Campbell https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/02/15/wanted-console-text-editor-for-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-306405 Sun, 29 May 2022 04:45:17 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8120#comment-306405 In reply to Gavin.

I was able to find a single executable for Xtreme, but unfortunately the website itself is completely unavailable and no sign of the developer.

The Xtreme executable also triggered a Webroot error, but it seems to be safe.

It is a nice Xtree/ZTreewin clone.

]]> By: Federico Bianchi https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/02/15/wanted-console-text-editor-for-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-303569 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 15:28:06 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8120#comment-303569 The Wikipedia entry points to Tom Almy’s TECO page: https://almy.us/teco.html

]]> By: EricG https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/02/15/wanted-console-text-editor-for-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-303505 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 08:12:10 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8120#comment-303505 DEC TECO is probably the oldest editor (1962) still in use. Likely the smallest programmable editor. There is a portable version which claims can be built for Windows but I found no binaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TECO_(text_editor)
https://github.com/fpjohnston/TECO-64

]]> By: silicontrip https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/02/15/wanted-console-text-editor-for-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-282992 Mon, 20 Sep 2021 22:20:35 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8120#comment-282992 In reply to silicontrip (was Mark).

I’ve made progress with ED as a cmdlet for Powershell (https://github.com/silicontrip/ps-ed) it’s missing some features but usable enough to make quick changes to config files or write short scripts.

]]> By: tenox https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/02/15/wanted-console-text-editor-for-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-281551 Sun, 29 Aug 2021 12:22:26 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8120#comment-281551 In reply to ozzmosis.

Interesting thank you I will add it to the article.

]]> By: ozzmosis https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/02/15/wanted-console-text-editor-for-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-281302 Mon, 23 Aug 2021 02:50:34 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8120#comment-281302 File Commander is a Norton Commander clone written by Brian Havard. It’s similar to Far Manager but there are also OS/2 & Linux ports of FC in addition to 32-bit & 64-bit Windows versions. It has a built-in text editor with syntax highlighting.

http://silk.apana.org.au/fc.html

FC version 2.4x was previously shareware but the recent 2.5x development versions are now freeware. From what I understand the author ultimately plans to make it open-source.

]]> By: magiblot https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/02/15/wanted-console-text-editor-for-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-274569 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 23:25:39 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8120#comment-274569 Hi Antoni,

Regarding the Turbo Vision-based editors, the binaries you found are out of date. This was my fault for not giving more information in the project’s homepage, something I’ve just fixed (https://github.com/magiblot/tvision#downloads ). Sorry for the inconvenience.

The issue with console fonts on Windows 7 was already fixed some time ago. For Windows XP support, you’ll have to use the executables built with Borland C++, at the expense of Unicode support.

The second editor you mention, Turbo, is also supported on Windows (https://github.com/magiblot/turbo#downloads ), although only on Vista and later.

Cheers.

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