At point while on the Windows kernel team, I was working on a port of edit.exe but when I left the team, development stopped. I was initially going for a identical replacement with a replica menu system but behind able to handle large files, modern capabilities.
edit.com I thought it was
Less than 64K in size, unheard of now.
Yes, that’s why it needed a rewrite. Particularly in terms of handling large files.
Thankfully, the author of Yori[0] shell has made a modern port of EDIT called, well, Yedit[1].