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

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

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