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
I was just opening the project’s files in a simple text editor – we wrote the code for websites by hand – when the phone rang.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 15, 2019
Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed for the PDP-6, a hacker crufted together a quick-and-dirty `stopgap editor' to be used until a better one was written.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
