text editor

See also: text-editor and Texteditor

English

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Noun

text editor (plural text editors)

  1. (computing) A program which allows a user to edit the contents of a text file, usually in an interactive way with immediate visual feedback.
    Coordinate term: word processor
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see text,‎ editor.
    • 1976, Robert O. Crummey, “ARSENII GLUKHOI (?-1643)”, in Joseph L[eon] Wieczynski, editor, The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, volume 2 (Anikin - Bailov Rocks), Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, →ISBN, page 115:
      Between 1620 and 1640 he worked as a text editor in the Patriarchal Press in Moscow.

Translations
something used to edit text in computers
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