text editor

A program which allows a user to edit the contents of a text file, usually in an interactive way with immediate visual feedback.

Noun

  1. A program which allows a user to edit the contents of a text file, usually in an interactive way with immediate visual feedback.

    Coordinate Terms: word processor

  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. - 1976, Robert O. Crummey, “ARSENII GLUKHOI (?-1643)”, in Joseph L[eon] Wieczynski, editor, The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and...

Forms

text editors text-editor