What happened to the "Edit" command

[mikehaff]

The edit command was used to open a text file within autocad. Was it replaced by something else?

[BeKirra]

The command is "DDedit".
Enter "aliasedit" you'll find the shortcut for "DDedit" is "ED" unless you had modified it.

[mikehaff]

Thank you for your input. However, you misunderstood my post. The "Edit" command was used to open an external text file outside of AutoCAD. That's what I need to do.

[Tom Beauford]

Edit was the editor for windows later replaced by notepad. We used to shell out to DOS from AutoCAD to edit lisp and script files, but Edit isn't included in Windows anymore. I remember using AutoCAD's Edlin command to create a linetype way back when.

[mikehaff]

Thank you Tom. I too remember edlin. Ok. Notepad works, but isn't there a way to switch to a different text editor? I can't seem to find it.

[Tom Beauford]

I have TextPad as my default editor for most files in Windows 7. The macro for starting Acaddoc.lsp is:
^C^C_start;acaddoc.lsp;
Which uses the default editor and for me opens it in TextPad.

[JeffClark]

Edit was the editor for windows later replaced by notepad. We used to shell out to DOS from AutoCAD to edit lisp and script files, but Edit isn't included in Windows anymore. I remember using AutoCAD's Edlin command to create a linetype way back when.

Ah.....the memories...I havn't heard "Edlin" in years!

[jaberwok]

I remember using AutoCAD's Edlin command ...

AutoCAD's Edlin command?
It was part of MS-DOS.

[rkmcswain]

The edit command was used to open a text file within autocad. Was it replaced by something else?

It was defined in the ACAD.PGP file, sometime prior to the 2008 version.

Here is a link to a version that includes this line: http://www.cabrillo.edu/~gmarcoccia/acad.pgp , if you want to copy it into your PGP file. Make sure "Edit" is a valid executable.
Here is the 2008 version that shows it was not included: http://web.acd.ccac.edu/~dference/edd222/acad.pgp

[moshira_hassan]

use the command "dtexted" and change the variable to 0