Comments on: DOS ‘Edit’ text editor on Vista

By: SumDude

SumDude — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:19:26 +0000

I don't think this works in the 64bit version of vista however, only 32bit.

By: Lahiru

Lahiru — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:14:27 +0000

Aha…That could be it. Thanks for sharing!

By: Michael McGray

Michael McGray — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:10:42 +0000

It appears that EDIT is not available on the 64-bit version of Vista but it is on teh 32-bit.

By: Lahiru

Lahiru — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:48:24 +0000

Hmm…it’s working fine on my Vista SP1. Can you please let me know the steps you followed so I can try to help? All you need to do is type EDIT once you open the command prompt.

By: Julz

Julz — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:20:14 +0000

I have run into the same issue as MacOren, no EDIT command in Vista’s Command Prompt. I bought my laptop last year, around June, for school and now I have an assignment that requires I edit a file using the command prompt. I brought up the list of commands and there was no command that edits files, not even EDLIN.