Basic text editor in command prompt

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I know for linux and Unix machines there is emacs and vi text editor and gcc is built in to compile c code   what would be the Windows text editor in cmd and are there any compilers built in

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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

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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

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MS-DOS Editor  or just edit  is a 16-bit text editor that is still included with 32-bit versions of Windows XP  Vista  7  8 and 8 1  It can edit files upto 65 279 lines long and has mouse support  Being an 16-bit DOS editor  it cannot run directly on 64-bit versions of Windows  It can be launched by typing edit at the command prompt

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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

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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

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As said by Morne you can use the vi editor for windows  Also you can get CodeBlocks for windows from here Install it and direct your PATH environment variable of your windows installation to gcc or other binaries in bin folder of codeblocks installation folder  Now you can use gcc or other compilers from cmd like linux

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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notepad filename extension  will open notepad editor

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

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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

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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

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