It was introduced with Windows PowerShell 1.0[0]. A text editor would need to directly support managing the registry, but you can read/write/search/do terminally-stuff to the registry via PowerShell.

The term we're looking for is a PSProvider of which there are many. There's even a PSProvider for SharePoint Online[2].

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/use-the-powershell-...

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...

[2] https://github.com/pnp/powershell/blob/96d00aa60379d8e3310f7...