text editor

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So Mr. Simonyi built a text editor, giving rise to modern word processors like Microsoft Word.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2023

“The greatest builders of technology, now all in Miami, start to realize the beach is more fun than staring at a text editor for 16 hours a day. No new apps are released in 2021.”

From The Verge • Dec. 18, 2020

To set up a Manubot project, users clone a dedicated GitHub repository to their computer and modify it using a standard programming text editor, such as Emacs or SublimeText.

From Nature • Mar. 30, 2020

There are graph-like illustrations, circles, arrows, number lines, maps and even an irrelevant excursus about an outmoded text editor called Kedit.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2017

For reading a plain-text file in a plain text editor, it is still arguably the most reader-friendly usage as well.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim