text editor

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text editor

noun text editors · text-editor

  1. A program which allows a user to edit the contents of a text file, usually in an interactive way with immediate visual feedback.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see text, editor. Between 1620 and 1640 he worked as a text editor in the Patriarchal Press in Moscow.

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noun something used to edit text in computers

Españoleditor de texto, editor textual
한국어문서 편집기 munseo pyeonjipgi, 텍스트 에디터 tekseuteu editeo
日本語テキストエディタ tekisuto edita
中文文本編輯器 /文本编辑器 wénběn biānjíqì
Portuguêseditor de texto
Françaiséditeur de texte
DeutschTexteditor
Ελληνικάκειμενογράφος keimenográfos
Русскийте́кстовый реда́ктор tékstovyj redáktor
العربيةمُحَرِّر نُصُوص muḥarrir nuṣūṣ

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@misc{text_editor_2026,
  title = {text editor},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/text%20editor},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}