Sure you can turn to a heavy IDE when you want to edit your code, but if you prefer a simple, lightweight, and extensible programming plain-text editor, our first choice is the free, open-source ...

WordPad, a Windows rich editing app that has been a mainstay of the platform since Windows 95, is on its way out. Microsoft has marked it for deprecation, a death knell that signals that it will be ...

Consistent quality writing can be hard to achieve, but a text editor like Vale gives you everything you need to get that much ...

Writers are fiercely loyal to the tools they use. For years, I swore by the ultra-slimline markdown editor iA Writer. Sadly, this hugely popular app is a macOS exclusive, and when I ditched my MacBook ...

TL;DR: Microsoft's Notepad, a simple text editor, is introducing a new AI 'Rewrite' feature in version 11.2410.15.0 for Windows Insiders on Windows 11. This feature allows users to rephrase sentences, ...

Editor's take: Back in the DOS days, real PC users wrote their textual tomes in the official MS-DOS Editor – I certainly did. These days, developers offer a confusing array of text editors, so ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

The Windows Terminal is a more powerful tool than you may think, and I tried using it for browsing the web and more.

The popular free text editor Notepad++ has a serious problem: its updater infects computers with malware. There's a fix though.