On 2014-09-02 04:23, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Read $VISUAL, if it exists, otherwise $EDITOR, if it exists, > otherwise fall back on something hard coded. Or read it from an ini > file. Or create an entry in the register. Whatever. That's up to > the application which uses this function, not the function itself. > > Under XP and older the standard DOS editor is EDIT, but that's gone > from Windows 7. Believe it or not, I understand that you can use: > > copy con [filename.???] > > to do basic line editing, which is terrifying, but I believe it > works.
And according to [1], the venerable edlin is still available on Win8, even if you don't have edit. Though according to [2], it sounds like MS-EDIT is still available on at least the 32-bit version of Win8 (it doesn't detail whether it comes out of the box on 64-bit Win8). I don't have Win8, so I can't corroborate either application. -tkc [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin#History [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS_Editor -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
