Text editors (Computer programs)

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Name (Hebrew)
תוכנות עריכת טקסט
Name (Latin)
Text editors (Computer programs)
Other forms of name
Editors, Text (Computer programs)
See Also From tracing topical name
Computer programs
Programming software
Systems software
Word processing
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q131212
Library of congress: sh 85134303
Sources of Information
  • 90-55516: Harper dict. of computing, 1991(text editor, a program that will enable text appearing on the screen to enter memory, where it can be amended, deleted, enlarged as necessary; a text editor combined with a print formatter constitutes a word processing program)
  • 92-14553: Encyc. of computer science, 1993(text editing systems, use the power of the computer to create, add, delete, and modify textual material; once considered tools for programmers, now often designed exclusively to do non-computer-related tasks (programmer's editor are now specialized tools); article includes discussion of McWrite and of WordPerfect)
  • Wikipedia, via WWW, Aug. 9, 2006:(Computer software ... Programming software usually provides tools to assist a programmer in writing computer programs and software using different programming languages in a more convenient way. The tools include text editors, compilers, interpreters, linkers, debuggers, and so on)
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Wikipedia description:

A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. An example of such program is "notepad" software (e.g. Windows Notepad). Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be used to change files such as configuration files, documentation files and programming language source code.

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