It was packaged with DOS and Windows for a long time, was quick and reliable, and could edit files in binary mode. Personally, when I was first learning computers, it was the closest thing I had to a hex editor, and I edited all kinds of files with it - bitmaps, WAV files, EXE files, game save-state files.
The article itself says:
"What motivated us to build Edit was the need for a default CLI text editor in 64-bit versions of Windows. 32-bit versions of Windows ship with the MS-DOS editor, but 64-bit versions do not have a CLI editor installed inbox."
sad.
Was there something special about it?
It was packaged with DOS and Windows for a long time, was quick and reliable, and could edit files in binary mode. Personally, when I was first learning computers, it was the closest thing I had to a hex editor, and I edited all kinds of files with it - bitmaps, WAV files, EXE files, game save-state files.
The article itself says: "What motivated us to build Edit was the need for a default CLI text editor in 64-bit versions of Windows. 32-bit versions of Windows ship with the MS-DOS editor, but 64-bit versions do not have a CLI editor installed inbox."